A system of elocution based upon grammatical analysisT. Laurie, 1869 - 432 pages |
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... Duke of Argyll 223 · Bright . 226 Gladstone 231 Gilfillan 233 Jones 236 Brougham 238 Froude 240 Chatham 243 Delays of Justice Address to His Majesty National Grievances Invasion of the Carnatic Mansfield 246 Grattan 249 Grattan 251 ...
... Duke of Argyll 223 · Bright . 226 Gladstone 231 Gilfillan 233 Jones 236 Brougham 238 Froude 240 Chatham 243 Delays of Justice Address to His Majesty National Grievances Invasion of the Carnatic Mansfield 246 Grattan 249 Grattan 251 ...
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... DUKE OF ARGYLL . THE REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES . FOR six hundred years , the principle of Parliamentary election has been this , that the majority of the voices of a constituency to which the writ of the Crown was issued should elect ...
... DUKE OF ARGYLL . THE REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES . FOR six hundred years , the principle of Parliamentary election has been this , that the majority of the voices of a constituency to which the writ of the Crown was issued should elect ...
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... consider should be quick in doing so , as having no basis in truth . 240 A SYSTEM OF ELOCUTION . Controversies of the Present Time The Slave Trade Brewster 221 Duke of Argyll 223 Bright Gladstone Gilfillan Jones Brougham.
... consider should be quick in doing so , as having no basis in truth . 240 A SYSTEM OF ELOCUTION . Controversies of the Present Time The Slave Trade Brewster 221 Duke of Argyll 223 Bright Gladstone Gilfillan Jones Brougham.
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... Duke the promise of protection to her two infant children , dies immediately afterward . FROM " FAZIO . " SCENE FIRST . In which connubial happiness , a Miser , and proud Beauty are described . A Room with Crucibles and Apparatus of ...
... Duke the promise of protection to her two infant children , dies immediately afterward . FROM " FAZIO . " SCENE FIRST . In which connubial happiness , a Miser , and proud Beauty are described . A Room with Crucibles and Apparatus of ...
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... Duke the promise of protection to her two infant children , dies immediately afterward . FROM " FAZIO . " SCENE FIRST . In which connubial happiness , a Miser , and proud Beauty are described . A Room with Crucibles and Apparatus of ...
... Duke the promise of protection to her two infant children , dies immediately afterward . FROM " FAZIO . " SCENE FIRST . In which connubial happiness , a Miser , and proud Beauty are described . A Room with Crucibles and Apparatus of ...
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Page 45 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he Is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Page 81 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since : their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 139 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 385 - Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Page 390 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on : 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the " Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 348 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Page 386 - Who is here so base, that would be a bondman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended.
Page 347 - The orchard walls are high, and hard to climb; And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
Page 51 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, "To tempt the dangerous gloom; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. "Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Page 45 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others