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 Mind |
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Page 45
... conducted for fome diftance from the place of action , he was ftripped of his coat , vest , stockings and fhoes ; loaded with as many of the packs of the wounded as could be piled upon him ; ftrongly pinioned , and his wrifts tied as ...
... conducted for fome diftance from the place of action , he was ftripped of his coat , vest , stockings and fhoes ; loaded with as many of the packs of the wounded as could be piled upon him ; ftrongly pinioned , and his wrifts tied as ...
Page 48
... conducted to Montreal by a French officer , who treated him with the greateft indulgence and hu- manity . r . THE FAITHFUL AMERICAN DOG . AN IN Officer in the late American army , on his station at the weftward , went out in the morning ...
... conducted to Montreal by a French officer , who treated him with the greateft indulgence and hu- manity . r . THE FAITHFUL AMERICAN DOG . AN IN Officer in the late American army , on his station at the weftward , went out in the morning ...
Page 52
... conduct of count Vienne , their gallant governor , made an admirable defenfe . 2. Day after day the English effected many a breach , which they repeatedly expected to form by morning ; but when morning appeared , they wondered to behold ...
... conduct of count Vienne , their gallant governor , made an admirable defenfe . 2. Day after day the English effected many a breach , which they repeatedly expected to form by morning ; but when morning appeared , they wondered to behold ...
Page 55
... conduct the remaining citizens , with their families , through the camp of the English . 20. Before they departed , however , they defired permiffion to take their laft adieu of their deliverers - What a parting ! what a fcene ! they ...
... conduct the remaining citizens , with their families , through the camp of the English . 20. Before they departed , however , they defired permiffion to take their laft adieu of their deliverers - What a parting ! what a fcene ! they ...
Page 56
... conduct of Sir Walter and his guard . All the tents of the English were inftantly emptied . The foldiers poured from ... conducted them to her tent , where the applauded their virtue , regaled them with a plentiful repast , and having ...
... conduct of Sir Walter and his guard . All the tents of the English were inftantly emptied . The foldiers poured from ... conducted them to her tent , where the applauded their virtue , regaled them with a plentiful repast , and having ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...