The Columbian ReaderR. P. & C. Williams, and Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell. E. Goodale, printer, 1818 - 204 páginas |
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... SPEAKING : BY RODOLPHUS DICKINSON , Esa . AUTHOR OF GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS , & c . SECOND EDITION . PUBLISHED BY R. P. & C. WILLIAMS , BOSTON , AND EZEKIEL GOODALE › HALLOWELL . - For Sale by them at their respective Book - Stores ...
... SPEAKING : BY RODOLPHUS DICKINSON , Esa . AUTHOR OF GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS , & c . SECOND EDITION . PUBLISHED BY R. P. & C. WILLIAMS , BOSTON , AND EZEKIEL GOODALE › HALLOWELL . - For Sale by them at their respective Book - Stores ...
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... Speaking : By RODOLPHUS DICKINSON , Esq . Âu , thor of Geographical Publications , & c . " In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States , entitled " An Act for the encouragement of Learning , by secur ing the copies of ...
... Speaking : By RODOLPHUS DICKINSON , Esq . Âu , thor of Geographical Publications , & c . " In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States , entitled " An Act for the encouragement of Learning , by secur ing the copies of ...
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... Speaking , 9 Accent , Emphasis , Pauses , 16 18 23 Tones , 24 Looks , 27 and Poetry , Delineation of some of the most powerful passions , Gesture , On the Reading or Recitation of different Species of Prose SELECTIONS IN PROSE . 28 30 ...
... Speaking , 9 Accent , Emphasis , Pauses , 16 18 23 Tones , 24 Looks , 27 and Poetry , Delineation of some of the most powerful passions , Gesture , On the Reading or Recitation of different Species of Prose SELECTIONS IN PROSE . 28 30 ...
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Rodolphus Dickinson. INTRODUCTION . GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARTS OF READING AND SPEAKING . Ir may be useful to offer some general principles upon which the arts of reading and speaking are founded ; by the knowledge and strict ...
Rodolphus Dickinson. INTRODUCTION . GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARTS OF READING AND SPEAKING . Ir may be useful to offer some general principles upon which the arts of reading and speaking are founded ; by the knowledge and strict ...
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... speak well on those topics which he has not studied . To this end , it is evidently necessary that the reader should himself understand and feel what he reads , be- - fore he can possibly repeat it intelligibly and effectu- ally to ...
... speak well on those topics which he has not studied . To this end , it is evidently necessary that the reader should himself understand and feel what he reads , be- - fore he can possibly repeat it intelligibly and effectu- ally to ...
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The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant ... Rodolphus Dickinson Visualização integral - 1815 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Aaron Burr accent appear Arcot art of reading beauty behold Blennerhasset body bosom breast breath character charms choly Cicero clouds countenance death delightful dread earth eloquence emphasis emphatical exertion expression fancy feel friends genius gesture give graceful grave groves habit Hamet hand happy harmony hast hath hearer heart heaven honor human human voice Hyder Ali imagination language light live look mankind manner means melan ment mind miserable moral motion MOUNT ETNA mountains nabob nation nature ness never o'er object occasion orator passions person phatical Philomela plain pleasure principles pronunciation proper racter reading or recitation religion Robert Boyle RODOLPHUS DICKINSON scene seems sentiments shade silent tongue smile sorrow soul speaking spirit storm storms of passion sweet syllable taste tempest thee thing thou thought thro tion tones truth utter virtue voice Warren Hastings whole words
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Página 53 - of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert-the
Página 53 - which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Página ii - title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit; " The Columbian Reader, comprising a new and various selection of elegant extracts in prose and poetry, for the use of schools in the United States, to which is prefixed an Introduction on the Arts of Reading and Speaking
Página ii - In conformity to the act ofthe Congress ofthe United States, entitled " An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and also to an act, entitled
Página 167 - peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold. Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes ; shuts* up sense; And. o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse,
Página xix - thing. When this opposition is expressed in words, it forms an antithesis, the opposite parts of which are always emphatical. 'thus in the following couplet from Pope : Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill . Appear in writing, or in judging ill. The words writing and judging are opposed to
Página 200 - No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer evening's latest sigh,. That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head* And aching heart beneath the soil, To slumber in that dreamless bed. From all my toil. For misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild j
Página 203 - The soul, of origin divine, God's glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine,^ A star of day ! "■ The sun is but a spark of fire,: A transient meteor in the sky ; The soul, immortal as its sire, SHALL