Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : as Well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste : with an Appendix ...Peter B. Gleason, 1812 - Počet stran: 382 |
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Strana 50
... glory requires perpetual labor to appear what one is not . If we have sense , modesty best sets it off ; if not , best hides the want . When , even in the heat of dispute , I yield to my an- tagonist , my victory over myself is more ...
... glory requires perpetual labor to appear what one is not . If we have sense , modesty best sets it off ; if not , best hides the want . When , even in the heat of dispute , I yield to my an- tagonist , my victory over myself is more ...
Strana 85
... glory would Sophronia do the general , if she would choose rather to work the battle of Blenheim in tapestry , than signalize herself , with so much vehemence , against those who are Frenchmen in their hearts . A third reason that I ...
... glory would Sophronia do the general , if she would choose rather to work the battle of Blenheim in tapestry , than signalize herself , with so much vehemence , against those who are Frenchmen in their hearts . A third reason that I ...
Strana 88
... glory . For he thought Tyranny , as Cicero says , the greatest of goddesses ; and had fre- . quently in his mouth a verse of Euripides , 88 [ PART I. LESSONS IN READING . world. His table was served with the most frugal ...
... glory . For he thought Tyranny , as Cicero says , the greatest of goddesses ; and had fre- . quently in his mouth a verse of Euripides , 88 [ PART I. LESSONS IN READING . world. His table was served with the most frugal ...
Strana 120
... glory , to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue , and knowledge to knowledge ; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man . Nay , it must be a prospect ...
... glory , to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue , and knowledge to knowledge ; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man . Nay , it must be a prospect ...
Strana 123
... glory of thy country . ' Every hody detested an action so cruel and inhuman . The mur derer was immediately seized , and dragged before the Du- umviri , the proper judges of such crimes . Horatius was condemned to lose his life ; and ...
... glory of thy country . ' Every hody detested an action so cruel and inhuman . The mur derer was immediately seized , and dragged before the Du- umviri , the proper judges of such crimes . Horatius was condemned to lose his life ; and ...
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