Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... Delight or Pleasure , as when one is entertained , or ravish- ed with music , painting , oratery , or any such elegancy , shews itself by the looks , gestures , and utterance of joy ; but moderate . Gravity or Seriousness , the mind ...
... Delight or Pleasure , as when one is entertained , or ravish- ed with music , painting , oratery , or any such elegancy , shews itself by the looks , gestures , and utterance of joy ; but moderate . Gravity or Seriousness , the mind ...
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... delight was in violence , slaughter , rapine and intestine confusions ; and such works were the employment of his earliest years . His constitu- tion qualified him for bearing hunger , cold and want of sleep , to a degree exceeding ...
... delight was in violence , slaughter , rapine and intestine confusions ; and such works were the employment of his earliest years . His constitu- tion qualified him for bearing hunger , cold and want of sleep , to a degree exceeding ...
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... delights , this world of pleasure , and bid farewell forever , to care , to pain , to bu- siness . " Hercules , hearing the lady talk after this manner , de- sired to know her name ; to which she answared , " my friends , and those who ...
... delights , this world of pleasure , and bid farewell forever , to care , to pain , to bu- siness . " Hercules , hearing the lady talk after this manner , de- sired to know her name ; to which she answared , " my friends , and those who ...
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... delights , you must apply to it , however irksome at first , closely , constantly , and for a considerable time . If you have resolution e- nough to do this , you cannot but love learning ; for the mind always loves that to which it has ...
... delights , you must apply to it , however irksome at first , closely , constantly , and for a considerable time . If you have resolution e- nough to do this , you cannot but love learning ; for the mind always loves that to which it has ...
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... delight from several objects which seem to have very little use in them ; as from the wildness of rocks and deserts , and the like grotesque parts of nature . Those who are versed in philosophy , may still car- ry this consideration ...
... delight from several objects which seem to have very little use in them ; as from the wildness of rocks and deserts , and the like grotesque parts of nature . Those who are versed in philosophy , may still car- ry this consideration ...
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