An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 páginas |
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Página 45
... Indian had finished his amufement , a French bas - officer ( a much more inveterate favage by nature , tho defcended from fo humane and polifhed a nation ) perceiving Putnam , came up to him , and levelling a fuzee within a foot of his ...
... Indian had finished his amufement , a French bas - officer ( a much more inveterate favage by nature , tho defcended from fo humane and polifhed a nation ) perceiving Putnam , came up to him , and levelling a fuzee within a foot of his ...
Página 46
... Indians , about two hundred in number , went before the reft of the party to the place where the whole were , that night , to encamp . They , took with them major Putnam , on whom ( befides innumerable other outrages ) they had the ...
... Indians , about two hundred in number , went before the reft of the party to the place where the whole were , that night , to encamp . They , took with them major Putnam , on whom ( befides innumerable other outrages ) they had the ...
Página 47
... Indians as could conveniently find lodging , in order to prevent the poffi- bility of his efcape . In this difagreeable and painful posture he remained until morning . 29. During this night , the longest and most dreary conceiv able ...
... Indians as could conveniently find lodging , in order to prevent the poffi- bility of his efcape . In this difagreeable and painful posture he remained until morning . 29. During this night , the longest and most dreary conceiv able ...
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... Indian who was lurking in the bufhes , and inftantly fell to the ground . 2. The Indian running to him , ftruck him on the head with his tomahawk in order to difpatch him ; but the button of his hat fortunately warding off the edge , he ...
... Indian who was lurking in the bufhes , and inftantly fell to the ground . 2. The Indian running to him , ftruck him on the head with his tomahawk in order to difpatch him ; but the button of his hat fortunately warding off the edge , he ...
Página 63
... Indians of the Shawanese tribe . The neighboring whites , according to their custom , undertook to punish this outrage in a fummary way . Colonel Crefap , a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on thofe much in- jured ...
... Indians of the Shawanese tribe . The neighboring whites , according to their custom , undertook to punish this outrage in a fummary way . Colonel Crefap , a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on thofe much in- jured ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
Página 214 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Página 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 190 - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
Página 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Página 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Página 62 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...