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Thus , in the following passage from Milton ( Paradise Lost , B. I. 262 ) , To reign is worth ambition , though in hell ; Better to reign in hell , than serve in heaven . The words heaven and hell are here opposed to each other ...
Thus , in the following passage from Milton ( Paradise Lost , B. I. 262 ) , To reign is worth ambition , though in hell ; Better to reign in hell , than serve in heaven . The words heaven and hell are here opposed to each other ...
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acquire action admit adopt apply beginning better Book cadence called CHAPTER circumflex clause cloth commencing common Concluding consists delivery discourse distinction Edition effect Elocution emphasis emphatic English equal example exercise expressed falling inflection force former four give given GOWER STREET Grammar Greek hand heavy importance improvement instance kind language Latin latter least less light loud manner marked means measure mind namely nature necessary never objects observed organs particulars passage passion pause perceive pleasures practice preceding principal produce PROFESSOR pronounced pronunciation proper prose quantity reader reading reason requires respect rest rising inflection rule sense sentence short simple soft sound speaker speaking speech style syllable taken thing third thou tion tone variety verse voice words
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Page 162 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 114 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 123 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
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Page 110 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
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Page 42 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
Page 113 - AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Page 115 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Grammar of Elocution |
| Author | Rev. Samuel Wood |
| Edition | 2 |
| Published | 1833 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Feb 23, 2007 |
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