The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Prose. II. Poetick Numbers ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Verse. Being the Third Part of a Columbian Exercise ... an Easy and Systematical Method of Teaching of Learning the English Language |
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Strana 7
By which means all proportional quantity in our tongue is utterly destroyed , and the whole appears a rapid gabble of short syllables . To obviate this , it is recommended to every one to pay a particular attention to every vocal ...
By which means all proportional quantity in our tongue is utterly destroyed , and the whole appears a rapid gabble of short syllables . To obviate this , it is recommended to every one to pay a particular attention to every vocal ...
Strana 21
... recommended for nothing else , leaves a man at ease , by pretending to little : whereas vainglory requires perpetual labour to appear what one is not . If we have sense , modesty best sets it off ; if not , best hides . the want .
... recommended for nothing else , leaves a man at ease , by pretending to little : whereas vainglory requires perpetual labour to appear what one is not . If we have sense , modesty best sets it off ; if not , best hides . the want .
Strana 30
Never ridicule sacred things , or what others may esteem such , however absurd they may appear to you . The scoffer carries in his bosom a live coal from that eternal fire denounced on the wicked . Levity should not be indulged in any ...
Never ridicule sacred things , or what others may esteem such , however absurd they may appear to you . The scoffer carries in his bosom a live coal from that eternal fire denounced on the wicked . Levity should not be indulged in any ...
Strana 31
All affectation is the mean and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich . LESSON XXXII . SWEARING and obscenity are offences not only against all that is sacred , but against all that is polite .
All affectation is the mean and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich . LESSON XXXII . SWEARING and obscenity are offences not only against all that is sacred , but against all that is polite .
Strana 38
And what a torment must it be for a man always to appear different from what he really is ! If sensuality were pleasure , beasts are happier than men : But human felicity is lodged in the soul , not in the flesh . LESSON XLVII .
And what a torment must it be for a man always to appear different from what he really is ! If sensuality were pleasure , beasts are happier than men : But human felicity is lodged in the soul , not in the flesh . LESSON XLVII .
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accent affected appear bear belonging better body called cause circle common death delight distance divided duty earth equal feel force give hand happiness head heart heaven honour human Italy kind land learning LESSON light live look manner mean measure miles mind moon move nature necessary never Ocean once orbit parents pass passions pause person planets pleasure present president principal proper publick reason relating religion respect rest rise round rules senate sense short soul sound speak stars syllables tell thee thing thou thought tion truth turn United verse vice virtue voice whole wisdom wise youth
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Strana 184 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his Hand on his Sword. Thus am I doubly arm'd : my death and life, My bane and antidote are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end ; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secur'd in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck...
Strana 192 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled Heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th' unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale ; And nightly, to the...
Strana 96 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Strana 174 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Strana 61 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. — He gave a deep sigh — I saw the iron enter into his soul — I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn...
Strana 180 - To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Strana 173 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Strana 51 - At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
Strana 170 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Strana 61 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; — he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time ; — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ! — His children ! — But here my heart began to bleed ; and I was forced to go on with another part...
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| Název | The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Prose. II. Poetick Numbers ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Verse. Being the Third Part of a Columbian Exercise ... an Easy and Systematical Method of Teaching of Learning the ... |
| Autor | Abner Alden |
| Vydání | 4 |
| Vydavatel | J. T. Buckingham, 1814 |
| Zdroj originálu: | Harvardská univerzita |
| Digitalizováno | 22. březen 2007 |
| Délka | Počet stran: 228 |
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