Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ... to which are Prefixed, Elements of Gesture ... and Rules for Expressing, with Propriety, the Various Passions, &c. of the MindPeter B. Gleason and Company, 1812 - 382 pages |
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... Delight or pleasure , as when one is entertained , or rav ished with music , painting , oratory , or any such elegancy , shows itself by the looks , gestures , and utterance of joy ; but moderated . Gravity , or seriousness , the mind ...
... Delight or pleasure , as when one is entertained , or rav ished with music , painting , oratory , or any such elegancy , shows itself by the looks , gestures , and utterance of joy ; but moderated . Gravity , or seriousness , the mind ...
Page 57
... delight was in violence , slaughter , rapine and intestine confusions ; and such works were the employment of his earliest years . His constitution qualified him for bearing hunger , cold , and want of sleep , to a degree exceeding ...
... delight was in violence , slaughter , rapine and intestine confusions ; and such works were the employment of his earliest years . His constitution qualified him for bearing hunger , cold , and want of sleep , to a degree exceeding ...
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... delights , this world of pleasure , and bid farewel for ever to care , to pain , to business . " Hurcules , hearing the lady talk after this manner , de- sired to know her name : to which she answered , “ My friends , and those who are ...
... delights , this world of pleasure , and bid farewel for ever to care , to pain , to business . " Hurcules , hearing the lady talk after this manner , de- sired to know her name : to which she answered , “ My friends , and those who are ...
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... delightful liberty of conversation , among a few friends , is soon destroyed , as liberty often has been , by being ... delights ; in order to feel its delights , you must apply to it , however irksome at first , closely , constantly ...
... delightful liberty of conversation , among a few friends , is soon destroyed , as liberty often has been , by being ... delights ; in order to feel its delights , you must apply to it , however irksome at first , closely , constantly ...
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... delightful , while she is carrying on her great work , and intent upon her own preservation . The husbandman , after the same manner , is employed in laying out the whole country into a kind of garden or landscape , and making every ...
... delightful , while she is carrying on her great work , and intent upon her own preservation . The husbandman , after the same manner , is employed in laying out the whole country into a kind of garden or landscape , and making every ...
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