An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindPublished and sold by David Hogan, 1809 - 230 ページ |
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... Kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers that Darius had made , said , Were I Alexander , I would except them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . An old age unsupported with matter for ...
... Kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers that Darius had made , said , Were I Alexander , I would except them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . An old age unsupported with matter for ...
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... king of England , after the bat- tle of Cressy , laid siege to Calais . He had fortified his camp in so impregnable a manner , that all the efforts of France proved ineffectual to raise the siege or throw suc- cours into the city . The ...
... king of England , after the bat- tle of Cressy , laid siege to Calais . He had fortified his camp in so impregnable a manner , that all the efforts of France proved ineffectual to raise the siege or throw suc- cours into the city . The ...
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... king , " are these the principal inhabit- ants of Calais ? " " They are , " says Mauny ; " they are not only the principal men of Calais : They are the principal men of France , my lord , if virtue has any share in the act of ennobling ...
... king , " are these the principal inhabit- ants of Calais ? " " They are , " says Mauny ; " they are not only the principal men of Calais : They are the principal men of France , my lord , if virtue has any share in the act of ennobling ...
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... king was so proud of having Captain Smith in his power , that he sent him in triumph to all the tributary princes , and ordered that he should be splendidly treated , till he returned to suffer that death which was prepared for him . 5 ...
... king was so proud of having Captain Smith in his power , that he sent him in triumph to all the tributary princes , and ordered that he should be splendidly treated , till he returned to suffer that death which was prepared for him . 5 ...
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... king sent to the place fix . ed upon , and was greatly astonished to find every thing which had been demanded . 10. Powhatan could not conceive this mode of transmit- ting thoughts ; and Captain Smith was henceforth looked upon as a ...
... king sent to the place fix . ed upon , and was greatly astonished to find every thing which had been demanded . 10. Powhatan could not conceive this mode of transmit- ting thoughts ; and Captain Smith was henceforth looked upon as a ...
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207 ページ - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
214 ページ - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
216 ページ - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
213 ページ - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
79 ページ - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
190 ページ - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
153 ページ - Italy, bind, scourge, torture with fire and red hot plates of iron, and at last put to the infamous death of the cross, a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman commonwealth, nor the...
169 ページ - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
208 ページ - Long in his highness' favor, and do justice For truth's sake, and his conscience ; that his bones, When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
217 ページ - When that rash humor, which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful ? Bru. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.