The Sixth Reader of the United States Series: Embracing, in Brief, the Principles of Rhetoric, Criticism, Eloquence, and Oratory, as Applied to Both Prose and Poetry, the Whole Adapted to Elocutionary InstructionHarper & Brothers, 1872 - Всего страниц: 372 |
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... three departments stand in the same relation to all written language that the four fundamental The Dwarf and the Giant Sublime Description A good Investment The Battle of Blenheima The Knight, the Hermit, and the DESCRIPTIVE PIECES.
... three departments stand in the same relation to all written language that the four fundamental The Dwarf and the Giant Sublime Description A good Investment The Battle of Blenheima The Knight, the Hermit, and the DESCRIPTIVE PIECES.
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... standing alone , leaves the sense incomplete , or relative , and therefore requires the rising inflection . RULE III . - Indirect questions , or those which can not be answered by yes or no , generally require the falling inflec- tion ...
... standing alone , leaves the sense incomplete , or relative , and therefore requires the rising inflection . RULE III . - Indirect questions , or those which can not be answered by yes or no , generally require the falling inflec- tion ...
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... stand him , and then ask some person to repeat what he said , I give my ques- tion the rising inflection , thus , " What ' did he say ' " ? " b . NOTE II . - When the name of the person addressed is added to the indirect question , the ...
... stand him , and then ask some person to repeat what he said , I give my ques- tion the rising inflection , thus , " What ' did he say ' " ? " b . NOTE II . - When the name of the person addressed is added to the indirect question , the ...
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... stand , and call on the name of the Lord his God , and strike his hand over the place , and recover the leper . Are not Ab'ănă and Pharpar , rivers of Damascus , better than all the waters of Israel'1 ? May I not wash in them , and be ...
... stand , and call on the name of the Lord his God , and strike his hand over the place , and recover the leper . Are not Ab'ănă and Pharpar , rivers of Damascus , better than all the waters of Israel'1 ? May I not wash in them , and be ...
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... stand , I will receive none . And he urged him to take it ; but he refused . So he departed from him a little way . 8. But Gehazi , the servant of Elisha the man of God , said , Behold , my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian , in not ...
... stand , I will receive none . And he urged him to take it ; but he refused . So he departed from him a little way . 8. But Gehazi , the servant of Elisha the man of God , said , Behold , my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian , in not ...
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Стр. 285 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced...
Стр. 101 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Стр. 79 - ... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Стр. 327 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Стр. 241 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Стр. 285 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Стр. 182 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Стр. 168 - Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Стр. 54 - A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Стр. 167 - 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. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land ; and he began to be in want.