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We too often hear persons say of a speaker's manner , that it is " natural , " even when it is marked by the ... on broad views and general principles : it is true to nature as a whole - not to some confined or accidental part of it .
We too often hear persons say of a speaker's manner , that it is " natural , " even when it is marked by the ... on broad views and general principles : it is true to nature as a whole - not to some confined or accidental part of it .
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To him who , in the love of Nature , holds Communion with her visible forms , she speaks A various language ; -for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness , and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker ...
To him who , in the love of Nature , holds Communion with her visible forms , she speaks A various language ; -for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness , and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker ...
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... nature rises revealed before him , its varieties . regulated , and its mysteries resolved ! The phenomena which bewilder , the prejudices which debase , the superstitions which enslave , vanish before education .
... nature rises revealed before him , its varieties . regulated , and its mysteries resolved ! The phenomena which bewilder , the prejudices which debase , the superstitions which enslave , vanish before education .
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| Title | The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
| Author | Warren P. Edgarton |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Mason Brothers, 1860 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2007 |
| Length | 502 pages |
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