The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. CarpenterJoseph Edwards Carpenter 1869 |
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Page 19
... appearance pleasing , unless the subject to be delivered is of a melancholy nature . In the case of addressing a large assembly , if the speaker desires to be heard perfectly from the opening of his oration , he should by no means begin ...
... appearance pleasing , unless the subject to be delivered is of a melancholy nature . In the case of addressing a large assembly , if the speaker desires to be heard perfectly from the opening of his oration , he should by no means begin ...
Page 44
... appeared of little moment now to the gentle boy . One night he had been thinking of his mother , and her picture in the drawing- room downstairs , and had thought she must have loved sweet Florence better than his father did , to have ...
... appeared of little moment now to the gentle boy . One night he had been thinking of his mother , and her picture in the drawing- room downstairs , and had thought she must have loved sweet Florence better than his father did , to have ...
Page 61
... appeared to me that there was , even in healthy moun- tain districts , a certain degree of inevitable melancholy ; nor could I ever escape from the feeling that here , where chiefly the beauty of God's working was manifested to men ...
... appeared to me that there was , even in healthy moun- tain districts , a certain degree of inevitable melancholy ; nor could I ever escape from the feeling that here , where chiefly the beauty of God's working was manifested to men ...
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... appeared in the pathway with his little guide . He advanced to meet them , and tenderly obliging the old man to lean upon his arm , conducted him with slow and trembling steps towards the house . He repaired to her chamber , straight ...
... appeared in the pathway with his little guide . He advanced to meet them , and tenderly obliging the old man to lean upon his arm , conducted him with slow and trembling steps towards the house . He repaired to her chamber , straight ...
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... appeared to him as they were , and without dis- guise . Mary took Sarah's hand and placed it within that of her contrite lover , for , had the tumult of conflicting passions allowed him to know his own soul , such at that moment he ...
... appeared to him as they were , and without dis- guise . Mary took Sarah's hand and placed it within that of her contrite lover , for , had the tumult of conflicting passions allowed him to know his own soul , such at that moment he ...
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