An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Mind and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which is Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindPublished and sold by David Hogan, 1816 - 230 pàgines |
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... young minds , and substituting others which cannot fail to be as interesting as useful . The present edition comprehends a great variety of senti- ment , morality , history , elocution , anecdote and descrip- tion ; and it is believed ...
... young minds , and substituting others which cannot fail to be as interesting as useful . The present edition comprehends a great variety of senti- ment , morality , history , elocution , anecdote and descrip- tion ; and it is believed ...
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... Young men are subtle arguers ; the cloke of honour covers all their faults , as that of passion all their follies . 12. Economy is no disgrace ; it is better living on a little than outliving a great deal . 13. Next to the satisfaction ...
... Young men are subtle arguers ; the cloke of honour covers all their faults , as that of passion all their follies . 12. Economy is no disgrace ; it is better living on a little than outliving a great deal . 13. Next to the satisfaction ...
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... young , consider that he shall one day be old - and remember , when he is old , that he has once been young . 2. Avarice is always poor , -but poor by her own fault . 3. The maxim which Periander of Corinth , one of the seven sages of ...
... young , consider that he shall one day be old - and remember , when he is old , that he has once been young . 2. Avarice is always poor , -but poor by her own fault . 3. The maxim which Periander of Corinth , one of the seven sages of ...
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... YOUNG man , son of a cobbler , in a small vil- lage near Madrid , having pushed his fortune in the Indies , returned to his native country with a considerable stock , and set up as a banker in Madrid . In his absence , his parents ...
... YOUNG man , son of a cobbler , in a small vil- lage near Madrid , having pushed his fortune in the Indies , returned to his native country with a considerable stock , and set up as a banker in Madrid . In his absence , his parents ...
Pàgina 27
... young , and may wait a little . Get rich , and my daughter is at your service . Perrin waited for Lucetta's returning in the evening . Has my father given you a re- fusal ? cried Lucetta . Ah Lucetta ! replied Perrin , how un- happy am ...
... young , and may wait a little . Get rich , and my daughter is at your service . Perrin waited for Lucetta's returning in the evening . Has my father given you a re- fusal ? cried Lucetta . Ah Lucetta ! replied Perrin , how un- happy am ...
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