The American Manual: Or, New English Reader, Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry; Selected from the Best Writers. To which are Added a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution; the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of New York. For the Use of SchoolsS. H. Henry & Company, 1836 - 295 стор. |
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... never ill be listened to for any length of time , unless he be distinctly heard , nd that without effort on the part of his hearers . No interest of the ubjoct can excuse a rapid and indistinct utterance . Many there are who fail in ...
... never ill be listened to for any length of time , unless he be distinctly heard , nd that without effort on the part of his hearers . No interest of the ubjoct can excuse a rapid and indistinct utterance . Many there are who fail in ...
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... never to part with , but which , forgetting his promise , be grave to an officer as a reward for the preservation of his friend's life . The xample is his apology to his wife ; but without the proper emphasis it Is hardly intelligible ...
... never to part with , but which , forgetting his promise , be grave to an officer as a reward for the preservation of his friend's life . The xample is his apology to his wife ; but without the proper emphasis it Is hardly intelligible ...
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... never err . * But the force of ha- bit is almost irresistible ; and when this is formed on the side of error nothing but the strongly excited emotions can disengage its bonds . It will be in vain , therefore , to depend upon the ...
... never err . * But the force of ha- bit is almost irresistible ; and when this is formed on the side of error nothing but the strongly excited emotions can disengage its bonds . It will be in vain , therefore , to depend upon the ...
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... never failing vice of fools . " " With passions unruffled , untainted by pride By reason , my life let me square ; The wants of my nature are cheaply supplie And the rest are but folly and care . " VI . Modulation . By Modulation is ...
... never failing vice of fools . " " With passions unruffled , untainted by pride By reason , my life let me square ; The wants of my nature are cheaply supplie And the rest are but folly and care . " VI . Modulation . By Modulation is ...
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... Never employ yourself to discern the faults of others ; but be careful to amend and prevent your own . a Preferment , advancement to office . b Ar - is - to ' - tle , a wise man of Greece c Ad - vers ' - i - ty , affliction , calamity ...
... Never employ yourself to discern the faults of others ; but be careful to amend and prevent your own . a Preferment , advancement to office . b Ar - is - to ' - tle , a wise man of Greece c Ad - vers ' - i - ty , affliction , calamity ...
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Сторінка 232 - of the poor. 9. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour;— The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 10. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the
Сторінка 275 - into compliance with his measures. He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have relumed to the people at large for their exercise ; the state remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and con
Сторінка 218 - deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From; these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel, What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 1. There is
Сторінка 208 - On with the dance ! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. To chase the glowing hours with flying feet— But, hark!—that heavy sound breaks in once more. As if the clouds its echo would repeat: And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Ann ! Arm', it
Сторінка 208 - Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a
Сторінка 120 - we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition, to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. I
Сторінка 233 - 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray: Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. '.20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
Сторінка 176 - joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus from afar, each dim discover'd scene, More pleasing seems than all the past hath been And every form that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. Night. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a
Сторінка 208 - opening roar ! 2. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising 3. Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart