Elocution: Or, Mental and Vocal PhilosophyJ.P. Morton & Company, 1845 - 368 páginas |
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... President Harrison , in his last out - door exercise , was assisting the gard- ner in adjusting some grape - vines . The gard- ner remarked , that there would be but little use in trailing the vines , so far as any fruit was concerned ...
... President Harrison , in his last out - door exercise , was assisting the gard- ner in adjusting some grape - vines . The gard- ner remarked , that there would be but little use in trailing the vines , so far as any fruit was concerned ...
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... President , who holds his office four evil , they learn to do well . years ; the Judicial power , in a Supreme Court , which consists of one Chief Justice . ad eight Associate Justices , and in such taferior courts , as Congress may ...
... President , who holds his office four evil , they learn to do well . years ; the Judicial power , in a Supreme Court , which consists of one Chief Justice . ad eight Associate Justices , and in such taferior courts , as Congress may ...
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... President is but the head - servant of the people . 7. Knowledge — is not truly ours , till we have given it away . 8. Our debts , and our sins , are generally greater than we suppose . 9. Some folks - are like snakes in the bad . 11 ...
... President is but the head - servant of the people . 7. Knowledge — is not truly ours , till we have given it away . 8. Our debts , and our sins , are generally greater than we suppose . 9. Some folks - are like snakes in the bad . 11 ...
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... president and One of the professors were going up to attend chapel prayers ; when the former observed to the latter - what a great pity that such a noble mind should be thus in ruins ! the maniac hearing what he said , rose majestically ...
... president and One of the professors were going up to attend chapel prayers ; when the former observed to the latter - what a great pity that such a noble mind should be thus in ruins ! the maniac hearing what he said , rose majestically ...
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... President , ( and I say it not in a boastful spirit ) that may challenge comparison with any other , for a uniform , zeal - ons - Americans all - whose fame is no more to ous , ardent , and uncalculating devotion to the union , that ...
... President , ( and I say it not in a boastful spirit ) that may challenge comparison with any other , for a uniform , zeal - ons - Americans all - whose fame is no more to ous , ardent , and uncalculating devotion to the union , that ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
accent action affection Anecdote arms Aunt Betty beauty better black crow bless body breath Cæsar called Catharine cause character Cicero consonant dark dear death delight Demosthenes diphthongal divine earth earth-a elocution eternal evil eyes Fairplay fear feel fire flowers fool gentleman give glory hand happy hath head hear heart heaven honor hope human knowledge labor language larynx liberty light live look Lord madam Manlius means ment mind Miss Carlton nature never o'er object orator passions person phrenology pleasure prangly principles Proverbs replied sense sing smile soul sound speak spirit stop thief sweet tears tell tempest tence thee thing thou thought tion tongue triphthongal true truth Twas Varieties virtue vocal voice vowel Weatherbox wise words youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 216 - In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we' also, in our day and generation,, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Página 216 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Página 218 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ?' — Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink.
Página 210 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...
Página 230 - Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution, hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist, alienation and distrust, are the growth, unnatural to such soils, of false principles since sown. They are weeds, the seeds of which that same great arm never scattered.
Página 176 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 240 - And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips — "The foe! They come! they come ! " And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering
Página 178 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 262 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
Página 160 - I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. — O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.