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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In a fair , rich , and flourishing country , whose cliffs are washed by the German Ocean , " lived Sabinus , a youth formed by nature to make a conquest wherever he thought proper ; but the constancy of his disposition fixed him only ...
In a fair , rich , and flourishing country , whose cliffs are washed by the German Ocean , " lived Sabinus , a youth formed by nature to make a conquest wherever he thought proper ; but the constancy of his disposition fixed him only ...
Page 169
No one thought of going to his lodgings to look after him or his remains . 7. Meanwhile the object of their mirth was tossing on a bed of sickness . Disease , which had been slowly sapping the foundations of his strength , burned in ...
No one thought of going to his lodgings to look after him or his remains . 7. Meanwhile the object of their mirth was tossing on a bed of sickness . Disease , which had been slowly sapping the foundations of his strength , burned in ...
Page 354
The usual distinction between genius and talent is , that one represents creative thought , the other practical skill ; one invents , the other applies . But the truth is , that high genius applies its own inventions better than talent ...
The usual distinction between genius and talent is , that one represents creative thought , the other practical skill ; one invents , the other applies . But the truth is , that high genius applies its own inventions better than talent ...
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