The School Reader. Fifth Book: Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fouth Reader. Part First, Containing Full Instructions in the Rhetorical Principles of Reading Or Speaking, Illustrated by Numerous Examples. Part Second, Consisting of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry from Various Eloquent Writers, Accompanied with Notes, Explanatory of Such Historical Or Classical Allusions, as the Several Lessons Contain: for the Use of Academies and the Highest Classes in Common and Select SchoolsM.N. Newman & Company, 1848 - 456 oldal |
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14. oldal
... persons engaged in the ordinary avocations of life . A practical knowledge of this science , enables the reader or speaker to render effective what- ever he utters - to express his thoughts with A power which awakens , and a grace that ...
... persons engaged in the ordinary avocations of life . A practical knowledge of this science , enables the reader or speaker to render effective what- ever he utters - to express his thoughts with A power which awakens , and a grace that ...
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... persons , these organs are more stiff and unwieldy than in others ; yet by a vigorous disci- pline , they may be rendered pliant and tractable . For instance , if the muscles around the lips and mouth , are heavy , much practice on ...
... persons , these organs are more stiff and unwieldy than in others ; yet by a vigorous disci- pline , they may be rendered pliant and tractable . For instance , if the muscles around the lips and mouth , are heavy , much practice on ...
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... person who neglects his business , if he does not become a pauper , will not be likely to amass wealth . 13. By the use of the rising inflection on pauper , the passage is made to mean that if he should become a pauper , he would amass ...
... person who neglects his business , if he does not become a pauper , will not be likely to amass wealth . 13. By the use of the rising inflection on pauper , the passage is made to mean that if he should become a pauper , he would amass ...
49. oldal
... person , in reading or speaking , assumes a certain pitch , which may be either high or low , ac- cording to circumstances , and which has a governing influence on the variations of the voice , above and be- low it . This degree of ...
... person , in reading or speaking , assumes a certain pitch , which may be either high or low , ac- cording to circumstances , and which has a governing influence on the variations of the voice , above and be- low it . This degree of ...
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... person at a distance . The terms high and low must not be considered as synonymous with loud and soft . They are used in the sense of shrill and grave . 8. Under ordinary circumstances , the middle pitch should be adopted as the key ...
... person at a distance . The terms high and low must not be considered as synonymous with loud and soft . They are used in the sense of shrill and grave . 8. Under ordinary circumstances , the middle pitch should be adopted as the key ...
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353. oldal - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — • It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
357. oldal - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
131. oldal - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
341. oldal - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
152. oldal - To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
191. oldal - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
31. oldal - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place ; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
191. oldal - Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
305. oldal - The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting.
163. oldal - A million torches lighted by thy hand Wander unwearied through the blue abyss : They own thy power, accomplish thy command. All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss, What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light, A glorious company of golden streams, Lamps of celestial ether burning bright, Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.