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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... thing which alienates their affections undermines the foundation of our na tional existence . In order to make the best impressions on the mind of the young reader , the author has selected lessons which furnish not only highly ...
... thing which alienates their affections undermines the foundation of our na tional existence . In order to make the best impressions on the mind of the young reader , the author has selected lessons which furnish not only highly ...
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... things ; to offer up to God their creator and preserver , the public tribute of their social adoration . 9. In the fables of Greece and Egypt , the importance of eloquence is attested by the belief , that the art of public speaking was ...
... things ; to offer up to God their creator and preserver , the public tribute of their social adoration . 9. In the fables of Greece and Egypt , the importance of eloquence is attested by the belief , that the art of public speaking was ...
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... thing excellent or glorious . To shine with their butterfly robes in the eyes of the fair , is all their ambition . To find admit- tance by tender assiduities to hearts as narrow as their own , is all their care . Were they capable of ...
... thing excellent or glorious . To shine with their butterfly robes in the eyes of the fair , is all their ambition . To find admit- tance by tender assiduities to hearts as narrow as their own , is all their care . Were they capable of ...
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... thing bore the appearance and gloom of night . 4. Though similar instances of uncommon darkness had been known at other places on the nineteenth of October 1762 , and on the twenty first of October 1716 , the event caused , among a ...
... thing bore the appearance and gloom of night . 4. Though similar instances of uncommon darkness had been known at other places on the nineteenth of October 1762 , and on the twenty first of October 1716 , the event caused , among a ...
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... thing which tends to diminish it , tends also to in- jure morals . The Romans owed much of their cor- ruption to the sights of the contests of their gladiators , and of criminals , with wild beasts . 2. For these reasons , executions ...
... thing which tends to diminish it , tends also to in- jure morals . The Romans owed much of their cor- ruption to the sights of the contests of their gladiators , and of criminals , with wild beasts . 2. For these reasons , executions ...
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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.