The Standard Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a Thorough Course of Preliminary Exercises in Articulation, Pronunciation, Accent, &c., Numerous Exercises in Reading, a New System of References, and a Copious Explanatory IndexPhillips, Sampson, 1857 - 336 páginas |
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... human voice , by means of a proper opening and closing of the organs of speech . Without a clear , faithful articulation , there can be no good elocution : nay , it is often tedious to hear a person speak whose articulation is defective ...
... human voice , by means of a proper opening and closing of the organs of speech . Without a clear , faithful articulation , there can be no good elocution : nay , it is often tedious to hear a person speak whose articulation is defective ...
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... human censer . Fancy , again , the fun of tucking one's self up for the night in the folds of a rose , rocked to sleep by the gentle sighs of the summer air , with nothing to do when , you wake but to wash yourself in a dew - drop , and ...
... human censer . Fancy , again , the fun of tucking one's self up for the night in the folds of a rose , rocked to sleep by the gentle sighs of the summer air , with nothing to do when , you wake but to wash yourself in a dew - drop , and ...
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... human ; to forgive . . divine . 7 . What men could do Is done already : heaven and earth will witness , If .. Rome .. must . .fall , that we are innocent . 8. Exercise and temperance strengthen even an indifferent constitution . 9. You ...
... human ; to forgive . . divine . 7 . What men could do Is done already : heaven and earth will witness , If .. Rome .. must . .fall , that we are innocent . 8. Exercise and temperance strengthen even an indifferent constitution . 9. You ...
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... human voice . Elocu- tion is to speech what coloring is to painting , the thing that conveys vitality to the representation . ― - 15. What a variety of objects is set before man to gratify his senses , to employ his thoughts , to engage ...
... human voice . Elocu- tion is to speech what coloring is to painting , the thing that conveys vitality to the representation . ― - 15. What a variety of objects is set before man to gratify his senses , to employ his thoughts , to engage ...
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... human being who held converse with him . I sat by the side of him , and though he could not distinctly see me , he shook me heartily by the hand , and smiled , evidently aware that I was a white man , and that I sympathized with his ...
... human being who held converse with him . I sat by the side of him , and though he could not distinctly see me , he shook me heartily by the hand , and smiled , evidently aware that I was a white man , and that I sympathized with his ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
accent acute accent Altorf Anon articulation aspirate bear ships beautiful beneath blessing breath called Canute Carthage cheerful child consonant sound Cousin cried death diphthong Don G Don Gomez earth elementary sound Ellipsis eyes fall father fear feel Gelert Gesler give Grim hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven hope inflection Italicized king laugh letters Lictor liquid consonant live look Lord majesty means mind mountain nasal consonant never night noun o'er obscure Oliver Cromwell Peter phaëton pitch poor Practise the Exercises pronounced reader replied rich river Rolla sentence short sound smile Socrates soul sound of long sound of short speak stood syllable tell thee thine things thou thought tion triphthong truth Tutor utterance Vivia vocal voice vowel vowel sounds walk words young youth ΕΙ
Passagens conhecidas
Página 257 - The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting.
Página 238 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay : Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 295 - Lo, such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to GOD.
Página 110 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 266 - How bright the unchanging morn appears! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 5 Life's labor done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, " How blest the righteous when he dies !
Página 182 - Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices...
Página 139 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee: Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
Página 254 - to use all the means which God and Nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house or in this country...
Página 254 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Página 116 - Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.