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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... never be divided , and a syllable should never be broken into two lines . The following is an exam- file of the proper use of the hyphen . 13. The apostrophe [ ] is a sign of the 10 The American Reader .
... never be divided , and a syllable should never be broken into two lines . The following is an exam- file of the proper use of the hyphen . 13. The apostrophe [ ] is a sign of the 10 The American Reader .
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... never cease . As soon as the hearer can suppress his disgust , he will surely go to sleep in such a noise . Any one who has the least taste for good reading or speaking , may surely break this dull habit . 12. But the same strain of ...
... never cease . As soon as the hearer can suppress his disgust , he will surely go to sleep in such a noise . Any one who has the least taste for good reading or speaking , may surely break this dull habit . 12. But the same strain of ...
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... never be copied . There may be something worthy of observation in very ordina- ry reading and speaking . Those who have not been favoured with talents and opportunities to speak with taste and elegance , should never be despised nor ...
... never be copied . There may be something worthy of observation in very ordina- ry reading and speaking . Those who have not been favoured with talents and opportunities to speak with taste and elegance , should never be despised nor ...
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... never explored by the ancient ora- tors , and here alone have the modern Europeans culti- vated the art with much success . In vain should we enter the halls of justice , in vain should we listen to the debates of senates for strains of ...
... never explored by the ancient ora- tors , and here alone have the modern Europeans culti- vated the art with much success . In vain should we enter the halls of justice , in vain should we listen to the debates of senates for strains of ...
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... is a consciousness of honest undesigning goodness , that inspires a confi- dence , and an ease , which the gaudiness of foppery can never attain . AC 9. I do not wish to exclude all ornament from The American Reader . 21.
... is a consciousness of honest undesigning goodness , that inspires a confi- dence , and an ease , which the gaudiness of foppery can never attain . AC 9. I do not wish to exclude all ornament from The American Reader . 21.
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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.