Self-culture in Reading, Speaking, and Conversation: Designed for the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Home InstructionA. S. Barnes & Company, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... heard with ease , and no louder , unless to give prominence to some particular thought ; and to pronounce with such distinctness , that not a word can be misapprehended , or mistaken for any other than the very word he designs to utter ...
... heard with ease , and no louder , unless to give prominence to some particular thought ; and to pronounce with such distinctness , that not a word can be misapprehended , or mistaken for any other than the very word he designs to utter ...
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... heard distinctly in asking a definite question , and the falling , in answering it : as , Did John go to the office ? Yes . They also appear distinct in a declarative sentence having two members ; as , He went and returned . Want of ...
... heard distinctly in asking a definite question , and the falling , in answering it : as , Did John go to the office ? Yes . They also appear distinct in a declarative sentence having two members ; as , He went and returned . Want of ...
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... heard that he made and baptized more disciples than John ( though Jesus himself baptized not , but his disciples ) , he left Judea , and went again into Galilee . I would not enter on my list of friends ( Though graced with polished ...
... heard that he made and baptized more disciples than John ( though Jesus himself baptized not , but his disciples ) , he left Judea , and went again into Galilee . I would not enter on my list of friends ( Though graced with polished ...
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... heard in asking a definite question ; the falling , in answering it ; as , Do you love pláy ? Yès ; I dò : - or the rising is heard in the first , and the falling , in the last member of a sentence disjunctively connected by or ; as ...
... heard in asking a definite question ; the falling , in answering it ; as , Do you love pláy ? Yès ; I dò : - or the rising is heard in the first , and the falling , in the last member of a sentence disjunctively connected by or ; as ...
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... heard in the last of several particulars in the beginning of a sentence ; as , Exercise and témperance | strengthen the constitution . It may be designated by the acute accent turned at the bottom . The falling curve begins with some of ...
... heard in the last of several particulars in the beginning of a sentence ; as , Exercise and témperance | strengthen the constitution . It may be designated by the acute accent turned at the bottom . The falling curve begins with some of ...
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A. S. BARNES Academy accent acute accent adapted American Arithmetic beautiful better blessings cæsura called character chee Christian circumflex Colton course DAVIES Demosthenes Dictation Exercises earth elementary elocution Embraces emphasis English language example falling slide Faneuil Hall feel gentlemen gesture give graceful Grammar grave accent hand happy heart heaven honor hymns Iambs illustrated inflection instruction interest labor language LESSON liberty living look Lord Mathematics mind Natural Philosophy nature never Northend's o'er orator Parker's poetry practical present principles pronounced pupil reader rising slide schools sense soul sound speak speaker spirit Spondee student style syllable T-What teacher thee thing thou thought tion tone treatise Trochee truth Union utterance verse voice volume vowel WALTER COLTON whole Willard's words young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 310 - Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as
Página 103 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Página 300 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 300 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Página 287 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 367 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 77 - Then Jesus answering said unto them. Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised. to the poor the gospel is preached.
Página 260 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 101 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 377 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.