Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General Principles of Elocution [etc.]G. & C.W. Sherwood, 1867 |
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... whole , while . Analyze and Write the preceding ten words ; also wharf , scarf , thwart , distinguish , original , distinct , tongue , liquid , experiment , opinion . LESSON XVIII . We have now studied 40 elements . compound vowels , as ...
... whole , while . Analyze and Write the preceding ten words ; also wharf , scarf , thwart , distinguish , original , distinct , tongue , liquid , experiment , opinion . LESSON XVIII . We have now studied 40 elements . compound vowels , as ...
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... whole precisely alike . Say rō road ; bō , boat . Close observation upon ō will convince the student that it is not strictly an element ; the close , or " vanish , " is , quite distinctly , o or u , -o - o . And though it is not well to ...
... whole precisely alike . Say rō road ; bō , boat . Close observation upon ō will convince the student that it is not strictly an element ; the close , or " vanish , " is , quite distinctly , o or u , -o - o . And though it is not well to ...
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... whole , a low opinion of these Londoners , but their courage diminished his dislike . XI . In speaking , we utter all words not requiring the fall- ing inflection with a very slight rise at the end . This is the case even in what we ...
... whole , a low opinion of these Londoners , but their courage diminished his dislike . XI . In speaking , we utter all words not requiring the fall- ing inflection with a very slight rise at the end . This is the case even in what we ...
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... whole North is an everlasting monument of the freedom , virtue , intelligence , and indomitable independence of Northern laborers . Go , Sir , go preach insurrection to men like these ! The poet Halleck , in his poem upon Marco Bozzaris ...
... whole North is an everlasting monument of the freedom , virtue , intelligence , and indomitable independence of Northern laborers . Go , Sir , go preach insurrection to men like these ! The poet Halleck , in his poem upon Marco Bozzaris ...
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... whole ; next the actual or received meaning of the word ; next show how the radical meaning gave place to the received meaning . For an example , take the word affluence . Its parts are af , flu , ence Af ad means to , flu means flow ...
... whole ; next the actual or received meaning of the word ; next show how the radical meaning gave place to the received meaning . For an example , take the word affluence . Its parts are af , flu , ence Af ad means to , flu means flow ...
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Page 115 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway; And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 328 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep when he wakes?
Page 280 - Thou visitest the earth and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 253 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 395 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 228 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 59 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power.
Page 283 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 253 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 56 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.