Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingMarsh, Capen & Lyon, 1831 - 372 Seiten |
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... earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrated on the ground . The arms are spread in a suppliant posture , and the voice of de- precation is uttered with sighs , groans , timidity ...
... earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrated on the ground . The arms are spread in a suppliant posture , and the voice of de- precation is uttered with sighs , groans , timidity ...
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... earth . Then he begins to rock from side to side , or backward and forward , like an aged pine on the side of a hill , when a brisk wind blows . The hands are clasped together , and often lifted , and the head often shaken with foolish ...
... earth . Then he begins to rock from side to side , or backward and forward , like an aged pine on the side of a hill , when a brisk wind blows . The hands are clasped together , and often lifted , and the head often shaken with foolish ...
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... earth is cover- ed with green , rather than with any other colour , as being such a right mixture of light and shade , that it comforts and strengthens the eye , instead of weakening or grieving it . For this reason , several painters ...
... earth is cover- ed with green , rather than with any other colour , as being such a right mixture of light and shade , that it comforts and strengthens the eye , instead of weakening or grieving it . For this reason , several painters ...
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... earth gay and delight- ful , while she is carrying on her great work , and intent upon her own preservation . The husbandman , after the same manner , is employed in laying out the whole country into a kind of garden or landscape , and ...
... earth gay and delight- ful , while she is carrying on her great work , and intent upon her own preservation . The husbandman , after the same manner , is employed in laying out the whole country into a kind of garden or landscape , and ...
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... , that beings of superior natures and perfections regard all the instances of pride and vanity , among our own species , in the same kind of view , when they take a survey of those who inhabit the earth SECT . II . ] 91 READING.
... , that beings of superior natures and perfections regard all the instances of pride and vanity , among our own species , in the same kind of view , when they take a survey of those who inhabit the earth SECT . II . ] 91 READING.
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