Sanders' Young Ladies' Reader: Embracing a Comprehensive Course of Instruction in the Principles of Rhetorical Reading : with a Choice Collection of Exercises in Reading, Both in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of the Higher Female Seminaries, as Also, the Higher Classes in Female Schools Generally |
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Plain looks are something in the regular course of things — a consistent , uniform peculiarity ; but beauty is a mere ... It is natural there ; we look for it ; and , when we find it in a certain degree , it usually conveys a pleasing ...
Plain looks are something in the regular course of things — a consistent , uniform peculiarity ; but beauty is a mere ... It is natural there ; we look for it ; and , when we find it in a certain degree , it usually conveys a pleasing ...
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а expected to look down with satisfaction on such a spectacle . [ All very true , perhaps ; but this is apparently a drama which would expire for want of actors , if men had their own choice . ] 2. The corrupting tendency of prosperity ...
а expected to look down with satisfaction on such a spectacle . [ All very true , perhaps ; but this is apparently a drama which would expire for want of actors , if men had their own choice . ] 2. The corrupting tendency of prosperity ...
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I am told that none but a ninny would look down in the sheepish way I do ; but that , when I meet a gentleman in our walks , I must look as full at him as I can , to show my eyes , and laugh , to show my teeth ( all our family have ...
I am told that none but a ninny would look down in the sheepish way I do ; but that , when I meet a gentleman in our walks , I must look as full at him as I can , to show my eyes , and laugh , to show my teeth ( all our family have ...
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| Title | Sanders' Young Ladies' Reader: Embracing a Comprehensive Course of Instruction in the Principles of Rhetorical Reading : with a Choice Collection of Exercises in Reading, Both in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of the Higher Female Seminaries, as Also, the Higher Classes in Female Schools Generally New series, Charles Walton Sanders |
| Author | Charles Walton Sanders |
| Publisher | Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Company, 1865 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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