The American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking : Designed for the Use of SchoolsManning and Loring, 1801 - 228 sidor |
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... most important , by laying a greater ftrefs of voice upon them than we do upon the others .. And it is furprifing to obferve how the fenfe of a phrafe may be altered by varying the emphafis . The following example will ferve as an ...
... most important , by laying a greater ftrefs of voice upon them than we do upon the others .. And it is furprifing to obferve how the fenfe of a phrafe may be altered by varying the emphafis . The following example will ferve as an ...
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... most graceful . up and 15. Motions made with the hands hould proceed rather from the fhoulders than from the elbows ; for they appear much more eafy . Too fudden and nimble motions fhould be avoided . Earneftnefs can be fully expreffed ...
... most graceful . up and 15. Motions made with the hands hould proceed rather from the fhoulders than from the elbows ; for they appear much more eafy . Too fudden and nimble motions fhould be avoided . Earneftnefs can be fully expreffed ...
Sida 8
... most men receive from others , are like traces drawn in the fand . The breath of every paffion fweeps them away , and they are remembered no more . But injuries are like inferiptions on monuments of brafs or pillars of marble , which ...
... most men receive from others , are like traces drawn in the fand . The breath of every paffion fweeps them away , and they are remembered no more . But injuries are like inferiptions on monuments of brafs or pillars of marble , which ...
Sida 9
... most acceptable to his Creator , by doing moft good to his creatures . 12. A man fhould never be afhamed to own he has been in the wrong ; which is but faying , in other words , that he is wifer to day than he was yesterday . 13 ...
... most acceptable to his Creator , by doing moft good to his creatures . 12. A man fhould never be afhamed to own he has been in the wrong ; which is but faying , in other words , that he is wifer to day than he was yesterday . 13 ...
Sida 18
... most beautiful fimplicity ; and furnishes many important leffons for instruction . 31. It difplays the mifchiefs of parental partiality ; the fatal effects of envy , jealoufy , and difcord amongst brethren ; the bleffings and honors ...
... most beautiful fimplicity ; and furnishes many important leffons for instruction . 31. It difplays the mifchiefs of parental partiality ; the fatal effects of envy , jealoufy , and difcord amongst brethren ; the bleffings and honors ...
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Sida 36 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Sida 16 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you ; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone ; if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Sida 16 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Sida 59 - And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write : and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
Sida 17 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither.
Sida 59 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth...
Sida 207 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Sida 129 - Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation, who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Sida 65 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come...
Sida 36 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.