The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingLincoln & Edmands, 1824 - 264 Seiten |
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... Sometimes it is only a slight and simple suspen- sion of voice that is proper ; sometimes a degree of cadence in the voice is required ; and sometimes that peculiar tone and ca- dence which denote the sentence to be finished . In all ...
... Sometimes it is only a slight and simple suspen- sion of voice that is proper ; sometimes a degree of cadence in the voice is required ; and sometimes that peculiar tone and ca- dence which denote the sentence to be finished . In all ...
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... sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak , monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose , eldest daughter of the spring : all his senses were gratified , and all care was banished from ...
... sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak , monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose , eldest daughter of the spring : all his senses were gratified , and all care was banished from ...
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... sometimes happens in our American plantations , who can forbear admiring their fidelity , though it expresses it ... sometimes only begun to be chip- ped , sometimes rough hewn , and but just sketched into a hu- man figure ; sometimes ...
... sometimes happens in our American plantations , who can forbear admiring their fidelity , though it expresses it ... sometimes only begun to be chip- ped , sometimes rough hewn , and but just sketched into a hu- man figure ; sometimes ...
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Select Sentences and Paragraphs | 23 |
The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on them | 37 |
No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind | 39 |
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