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... talk much , but to talk well , that you should learn to converse . " " Oh yes , we shall agree in that , I am sure . I wish to learn to talk well ; but I cannot at all think how you will set about teaching me . " 66 My method of ...
... talk much , but to talk well , that you should learn to converse . " " Oh yes , we shall agree in that , I am sure . I wish to learn to talk well ; but I cannot at all think how you will set about teaching me . " 66 My method of ...
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... talking , if his matter be bad , no possible good can come of it ; and if his matter be ever so excellent , it will be sure to lose much of its effects , if his manner of communicating it be forbidding and dis- agreeable . In this ...
... talking , if his matter be bad , no possible good can come of it ; and if his matter be ever so excellent , it will be sure to lose much of its effects , if his manner of communicating it be forbidding and dis- agreeable . In this ...
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... talk is very sad . One bawls aloud , as though you were deaf ; another speaks so low , that your hearing must be good indeed if you can understand him ; a third converses so fast , that you cannot keep up with him ; while a fourth ...
... talk is very sad . One bawls aloud , as though you were deaf ; another speaks so low , that your hearing must be good indeed if you can understand him ; a third converses so fast , that you cannot keep up with him ; while a fourth ...
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... talking . " 66 Yes ! One is altogether different to the other . " " As there is nothing like preparing the ground well to receive the seed , before I begin to teach you to converse , I will give you a few instances , setting forth , as ...
... talking . " 66 Yes ! One is altogether different to the other . " " As there is nothing like preparing the ground well to receive the seed , before I begin to teach you to converse , I will give you a few instances , setting forth , as ...
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... peo- ple would not be compelled to hear more than he wished them to know . " 66 That was right . He himself was the simpleton , and not Mr. Lovell . I shall remember not to bawl out when I talk with any 34 LEARNING TO CONVERSE .
... peo- ple would not be compelled to hear more than he wished them to know . " 66 That was right . He himself was the simpleton , and not Mr. Lovell . I shall remember not to bawl out when I talk with any 34 LEARNING TO CONVERSE .
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Page 164 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 283 - And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip ; and his sling was in his hand : and he drew near to the Philistine.
Page 6 - Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips.
Page 165 - WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Page 40 - And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
Page 195 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 219 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 164 - O come, let us sing unto the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with Psalms.
Page 253 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 187 - And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.