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... nature that we find rules . The child or the savage orator never mistakes in inflection , or emphasis , or modulation . The best speakers and readers are those who follow the impulse of nature or most closely imitate it as observed in ...
... nature that we find rules . The child or the savage orator never mistakes in inflection , or emphasis , or modulation . The best speakers and readers are those who follow the impulse of nature or most closely imitate it as observed in ...
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... natural consequence of an effort to articulate correctly . Thus , in endeavoring to sound correctly the a in metric - al , the pupil is very apt to say met- ric - al ' , accenting the last syllable instead of the first . REMARK 2. — The ...
... natural consequence of an effort to articulate correctly . Thus , in endeavoring to sound correctly the a in metric - al , the pupil is very apt to say met- ric - al ' , accenting the last syllable instead of the first . REMARK 2. — The ...
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... nature . Folly is never pleased with itself . Pride , not nature , craves much . The little tattler tittered at the tempest . Titus takes the petulant outcasts . The covetous partner is destitute of fortune . No one of you knows where ...
... nature . Folly is never pleased with itself . Pride , not nature , craves much . The little tattler tittered at the tempest . Titus takes the petulant outcasts . The covetous partner is destitute of fortune . No one of you knows where ...
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... nature's germens tumble altogether ' , Even till destruction sicken ' ; answer me To what I ask you . §4 . A series of words or members which concludes a sentence is called a concluding series , and each member usu- ally has the falling ...
... nature's germens tumble altogether ' , Even till destruction sicken ' ; answer me To what I ask you . §4 . A series of words or members which concludes a sentence is called a concluding series , and each member usu- ally has the falling ...
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... nature to one who is blind ' . Here sum and blind , according to Rule VI , would take the falling inflec- tion , but as they are emphatic , and the object of emphasis is to draw attention to the word emphasized , this is here ...
... nature to one who is blind ' . Here sum and blind , according to Rule VI , would take the falling inflec- tion , but as they are emphatic , and the object of emphasis is to draw attention to the word emphasized , this is here ...
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Page 277 - O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a...
Page 199 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now, and Independence forever.
Page 168 - Thou coveredst it with the deep As with a garment : The waters stood above the mountains. At Thy rebuke They fled ; At the voice of Thy thunder They hasted away.
Page 96 - Nay, not so," Replied the Angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men." The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Page 154 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 295 - Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 335 - Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn him so much now ; still, he licked his fingers from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into his slow understanding that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious...
Page 95 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 36 - I'm the chief of Ulva's Isle, And this Lord Ullin's daughter. "And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. "His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps...
Page 118 - In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forests cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.