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... give extensive variety , and specimens from most of the great masters of our language , but he has attempted to make the work subserve the interests of morality , religion , and good manners . The Rules for Readers and Speakers , and ...
... give extensive variety , and specimens from most of the great masters of our language , but he has attempted to make the work subserve the interests of morality , religion , and good manners . The Rules for Readers and Speakers , and ...
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... give him a thorough acquaintance with our language . These objects are too important to be overlooked , and the author has sought to ensure their attainment . But , while the author thus resigns all claims to invention , he hopes he has ...
... give him a thorough acquaintance with our language . These objects are too important to be overlooked , and the author has sought to ensure their attainment . But , while the author thus resigns all claims to invention , he hopes he has ...
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... give himself no trouble to hear any other preacher . In order to do this , it was necessary to use the double inflection in speaking the word Whitefield , first bending the voice downward and then upward , upon that word . This mode of ...
... give himself no trouble to hear any other preacher . In order to do this , it was necessary to use the double inflection in speaking the word Whitefield , first bending the voice downward and then upward , upon that word . This mode of ...
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... give free play to his lungs . 18. Make yourself master of the sense of everything you read . The object of silent reading is to acquire ideas ; of oral reading , to communicate them to others . If you pass a sentence without under ...
... give free play to his lungs . 18. Make yourself master of the sense of everything you read . The object of silent reading is to acquire ideas ; of oral reading , to communicate them to others . If you pass a sentence without under ...
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... give the means of pursuing it thoroughly . If a pupil will get interested in it , he will pursue it with eagerness . The utility of such a study , as is here proposed , may be inferred from the fact , that the understanding of a single ...
... give the means of pursuing it thoroughly . If a pupil will get interested in it , he will pursue it with eagerness . The utility of such a study , as is here proposed , may be inferred from the fact , that the understanding of a single ...
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Page 273 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 273 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 91 - Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? 9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. 10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Page 159 - Do we intend to violate that most solemn obligation ever entered into by men, that plighting, before God, of our sacred honor to Washington, when putting him forth to incur the dangers of war, as well as the political hazards of the times, we promised to adhere to him, in every extremity, with our fortunes and our lives? I know there is not a man here, who would not rather see a general conflagration...
Page 290 - O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here ! Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 91 - A certain man had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Page 125 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 252 - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 142 - It must not be ; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 179 - God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee ; Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.