The Fifth, Or, Elocutionary Reader, in which the Principles of Elocution are Illustrated by Reading Exercises in Connection with the Rules : Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies |
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... Condition , Case Absolute , & c . 95 THE CIRCUMFLEX , 135 95-97 Language of Irony , & c . , 136 , 137 100-102 MONOTONE , 141 , 142 ᏟᎻᎪᏢᎢᎬᎡ ᏙᏞ MODULATION , EXPRESSION , Pitch , Quantity , Compass of Voice , Stress , Movement ...
... Condition , Case Absolute , & c . 95 THE CIRCUMFLEX , 135 95-97 Language of Irony , & c . , 136 , 137 100-102 MONOTONE , 141 , 142 ᏟᎻᎪᏢᎢᎬᎡ ᏙᏞ MODULATION , EXPRESSION , Pitch , Quantity , Compass of Voice , Stress , Movement ...
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... condition may be confined to a single clause , or extended to two or more . • QUESTION . What is a conditional sentence ? EXAMPLES . 1 . A Single Condition . 1. If 46 TOWN'S ELOCUTIONARY READER . | Conditional Sentences, Now and Then,
... condition may be confined to a single clause , or extended to two or more . • QUESTION . What is a conditional sentence ? EXAMPLES . 1 . A Single Condition . 1. If 46 TOWN'S ELOCUTIONARY READER . | Conditional Sentences, Now and Then,
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... condition . EXAMPLES . 1. Direct Interrogatives . 1. Are you unwell ? Have you been sick ? 2. Were we not made right ... condition . Of successive conditions . What is an interrogative sentence ? What is the note ? Give examples of ...
... condition . EXAMPLES . 1. Direct Interrogatives . 1. Are you unwell ? Have you been sick ? 2. Were we not made right ... condition . Of successive conditions . What is an interrogative sentence ? What is the note ? Give examples of ...
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... condition , and only on condition , that society should attain a true end , and not a means . 4. Is it a fact , that tríbes , that natíons , that cóntinents , in which no physical condition of progress was wánting , have always made ...
... condition , and only on condition , that society should attain a true end , and not a means . 4. Is it a fact , that tríbes , that natíons , that cóntinents , in which no physical condition of progress was wánting , have always made ...
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Salem Town. toward human perfectability , is discoverable in their civil or social condition . 7. Do not the Chinese and the Hindoos , now use astronomi- cal tables , of the principles of whose construction they know nothing ? So far ...
Salem Town. toward human perfectability , is discoverable in their civil or social condition . 7. Do not the Chinese and the Hindoos , now use astronomi- cal tables , of the principles of whose construction they know nothing ? So far ...
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Page 192 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 334 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 234 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 330 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 337 - These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire. There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Page 439 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.
Page 141 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Page 335 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity.
Page 142 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up.
Page 93 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.