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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... duties of life , responsible to God for themselves , their posterity , and their country ! While learning the elegant and highly useful Art of Reading and Speaking with propriety and gracefulness , may they not as easily acquire useful ...
... duties of life , responsible to God for themselves , their posterity , and their country ! While learning the elegant and highly useful Art of Reading and Speaking with propriety and gracefulness , may they not as easily acquire useful ...
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... duties were inculcated , because none but a good man could be an orator . Wisdom , learning , virtue herself were estimated by their subserviency to the purposes of eloquence , and the whole duty of man consisted in making himself an ...
... duties were inculcated , because none but a good man could be an orator . Wisdom , learning , virtue herself were estimated by their subserviency to the purposes of eloquence , and the whole duty of man consisted in making himself an ...
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... duty we owe society , to present a decent and agreeable appearance . Every power of pleasing is a talent , which increases our influence , and the good will improve with care , this mean of usefulness . But orna- ment should be ...
... duty we owe society , to present a decent and agreeable appearance . Every power of pleasing is a talent , which increases our influence , and the good will improve with care , this mean of usefulness . But orna- ment should be ...
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... duty of loyal sub- jects , to the hatred and resentment of enemies . " 4. On the seventh of June , 1776 , a motion was made in Congress , by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia , for declaring the colonies free and independent . This mo- tion ...
... duty of loyal sub- jects , to the hatred and resentment of enemies . " 4. On the seventh of June , 1776 , a motion was made in Congress , by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia , for declaring the colonies free and independent . This mo- tion ...
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... duty to his Creator , unless a recurrence of fixed and stated periods had been instituted , to keep in mind his immortality , and to prepare for that untri- ed existence , for which he is ultimately intended . 9. Between the two worlds ...
... duty to his Creator , unless a recurrence of fixed and stated periods had been instituted , to keep in mind his immortality , and to prepare for that untri- ed existence , for which he is ultimately intended . 9. Between the two worlds ...
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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.