McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with Introductory Rules and ExamplesW.B. Smith, 1857 - 448 pages |
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... honor shall weave of the laurel a crown , That beauty shall bind on the brow of the brave . QUESTIONS . - Under what heads is the subject of Elocution consid- What is the first source of defective articulation that is named ? Give ...
... honor shall weave of the laurel a crown , That beauty shall bind on the brow of the brave . QUESTIONS . - Under what heads is the subject of Elocution consid- What is the first source of defective articulation that is named ? Give ...
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... ` , god - like action` . 2. If you care not for your life , respect your honor` . RULE VII . — Interrogative sentences and members of sentences , which can be answered by yes or no 30 INFLECTIONS . Reply to Sir Robert Walpole.
... ` , god - like action` . 2. If you care not for your life , respect your honor` . RULE VII . — Interrogative sentences and members of sentences , which can be answered by yes or no 30 INFLECTIONS . Reply to Sir Robert Walpole.
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... honors , is charged with an intention to kill you in your own house : an intention , of which , unless you imagine ... honor thy courage , but I detest thy crimes . 6. They slight my mean birth ́ , I despise their mean characters` . 7 ...
... honors , is charged with an intention to kill you in your own house : an intention , of which , unless you imagine ... honor thy courage , but I detest thy crimes . 6. They slight my mean birth ́ , I despise their mean characters` . 7 ...
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... honor , or shall we wait until the ax of the executioner is at our throats` ? 7. Shall we crown the author of these public calamities with garlands , or shall we wrest from him his ill - deserved authority . REMARK 2. - When the ...
... honor , or shall we wait until the ax of the executioner is at our throats` ? 7. Shall we crown the author of these public calamities with garlands , or shall we wrest from him his ill - deserved authority . REMARK 2. - When the ...
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... honors , which attended the course I then advised ; but the superior force of truth , and your utter inability to point any course more eligible , ) if this was the case , I say , is it not highly cruel and unjust to arraign these ...
... honors , which attended the course I then advised ; but the superior force of truth , and your utter inability to point any course more eligible , ) if this was the case , I say , is it not highly cruel and unjust to arraign these ...
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Page 254 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Page 424 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And he delighteth in his way ; Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
Page 198 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 198 - His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron, and maid...
Page 415 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 354 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 309 - 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 136 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 253 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 365 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.