Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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Page 116
... Behold him distracted with many sorrows , surrounded with the tender pledges of his love ; and the partner of his cares- without bread to give them ; unable from the remem- brance of better days to dig ; -to beg ashamed . When we enter ...
... Behold him distracted with many sorrows , surrounded with the tender pledges of his love ; and the partner of his cares- without bread to give them ; unable from the remem- brance of better days to dig ; -to beg ashamed . When we enter ...
Page 117
... Behold the dead man ready to be carried out , the only son of his mother , and she a widow . Perhaps a still more affecting spectacle , a kind and indulgent father of a numerous family lies breath- less - snatched away in the strength ...
... Behold the dead man ready to be carried out , the only son of his mother , and she a widow . Perhaps a still more affecting spectacle , a kind and indulgent father of a numerous family lies breath- less - snatched away in the strength ...
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... behold , to contemplate , to admire this little band ' of patriots , as they passed . They bowed down to them on all sides . They murmured their applause of that virtue , which they could not but revere , even in ene- mies ; and they ...
... behold , to contemplate , to admire this little band ' of patriots , as they passed . They bowed down to them on all sides . They murmured their applause of that virtue , which they could not but revere , even in ene- mies ; and they ...
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... behold my fellow creatures laboring in a toilsome and absurd pursuit of trifles ; one , that he may be called by a particular appellation ; an- other , that he may wear a particular ornament , which I regard as a piece of riband , that ...
... behold my fellow creatures laboring in a toilsome and absurd pursuit of trifles ; one , that he may be called by a particular appellation ; an- other , that he may wear a particular ornament , which I regard as a piece of riband , that ...
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... Behold the child , by nature's kindly law , Pleas'd with a rattle , tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite ; Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage 226 ...
... Behold the child , by nature's kindly law , Pleas'd with a rattle , tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite ; Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage 226 ...
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