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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... passes . Words , if any , few , and those dragged out , rather than spoken ; the accents weak , and interrupted , sighs breaking into the middle of sentences and words . Despair , as in a condemned , criminal , or one , who has lost all ...
... passes . Words , if any , few , and those dragged out , rather than spoken ; the accents weak , and interrupted , sighs breaking into the middle of sentences and words . Despair , as in a condemned , criminal , or one , who has lost all ...
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... pass once its limits , and you fall headlong into vice . Examine well the counsel that favors your desires . The gratification of desire is sometimes the worst thing that can befal us . IV . TO be angry , is to punish myself for the ...
... pass once its limits , and you fall headlong into vice . Examine well the counsel that favors your desires . The gratification of desire is sometimes the worst thing that can befal us . IV . TO be angry , is to punish myself for the ...
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... pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment and remorse for old age . ” " As for me I am a friend of gods , and of good men , an agreeable companion to the artisan , au household ...
... pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment and remorse for old age . ” " As for me I am a friend of gods , and of good men , an agreeable companion to the artisan , au household ...
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... pass away the evening , which now began to grow tedious , we fell into that laudible and prin- itive diversion of questions and commands . I was no soon- er vested with the regal authority , but I enjoined all the ladies , under pain of ...
... pass away the evening , which now began to grow tedious , we fell into that laudible and prin- itive diversion of questions and commands . I was no soon- er vested with the regal authority , but I enjoined all the ladies , under pain of ...
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... pass through the forms of schools and universities ; but you will bring noth- ing away from them , of real value . The proper sort and degree of diligence , you cannot possess , but by the efforts of your own resolution . Your ...
... pass through the forms of schools and universities ; but you will bring noth- ing away from them , of real value . The proper sort and degree of diligence , you cannot possess , but by the efforts of your own resolution . Your ...
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