The American Reader: A Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking, Wholly from American Authors : Embracing a Great Variety of Entertaining Subjects of History, Biography, Divinity, Laws, Natural and Moral Philosophy, and of Other Branches of Useful and Elegant Learning : Furnishing Numerous Specimens of American Eloquence, from the Presidential Chair, the Head Quarters of the Military Commander, the Seat in Congress, the Pulpit on Various Occasions, the Bench of the Judge, the Bar, Station of Literary Honor, the Seat of the Muses, and from the Shade of Private Life : Containing Rules for the Proper Use of the Pauses, for Graceful and Persuasive Pronunciation, and for Appropriate and Impressive Gesture, to Improve the Scholar in Reading and Speaking, While Enriching the Mind with Religious, Virtuous, and Useful Knowledge : with an Appendix of Definitions of the Words in this Book Most Difficult for Youth to Understand : Designed for the Use of SchoolsLincoln & Edmands, 1810 - 216 sidor |
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... common schools , and they are divided into verses , furnishing a portion for each individual of a class . The various subjects and kinds of style are arranged in a method , judged by the author best calculated to please and Arnprove the ...
... common schools , and they are divided into verses , furnishing a portion for each individual of a class . The various subjects and kinds of style are arranged in a method , judged by the author best calculated to please and Arnprove the ...
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... common conversation , it will easily extend to our reading and speaking . 6. It is related of Cicero the renowned orator of the Romans , that his voice was coarse and disagreeable , before he visited Greece , but observing their ...
... common conversation , it will easily extend to our reading and speaking . 6. It is related of Cicero the renowned orator of the Romans , that his voice was coarse and disagreeable , before he visited Greece , but observing their ...
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... common story - teller . One ex- treme breaks the voice and offends the ear , the other lulls the hearer to sleep . A speaker may be animated without being boisterous , and he may be graceful with- out dulness . . Reading or speaking ...
... common story - teller . One ex- treme breaks the voice and offends the ear , the other lulls the hearer to sleep . A speaker may be animated without being boisterous , and he may be graceful with- out dulness . . Reading or speaking ...
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... common with the lower orders of animated nature : but as the con- veyance of thought ; as the means of rational intercourse with his fellow - creatures , and of humble communion with his God . 3. It is by the means of reason , clothed ...
... common with the lower orders of animated nature : but as the con- veyance of thought ; as the means of rational intercourse with his fellow - creatures , and of humble communion with his God . 3. It is by the means of reason , clothed ...
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... common cause to maintain ; and on purity of manners all their influence is founded . I repeat it , women have no shield but unsullied purity . If they wish to maintain their ground , they must take the whole armour of spotless innocence ...
... common cause to maintain ; and on purity of manners all their influence is founded . I repeat it , women have no shield but unsullied purity . If they wish to maintain their ground , they must take the whole armour of spotless innocence ...
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Sida 95 - I expected every moment," says an eye-witness, " to see him fall. His duty and situation exposed him to every danger. Nothing but the superintending care of Providence could have saved him from the fate of all around him.