Spoken English: A Method of Improving Speech and Reading by Studying Voice Conditions and Modulations in Union with Their Causes in Thinking and FeelingExpression Company, 1913 - 320 pages |
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... emotional conditions . In writing there is some- thing objective for the teacher to mark , something external that the student himself can see , and well - settled rules of grammar to be obeyed . In spoken English , however , rules ...
... emotional conditions . In writing there is some- thing objective for the teacher to mark , something external that the student himself can see , and well - settled rules of grammar to be obeyed . In spoken English , however , rules ...
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... emotions will be vague and indefinite , if not lacking altogether . We shall fear nature . We shall be afraid of night under the beautiful stars . We shall have little gen- uine admiration for nature and take little part in the life of ...
... emotions will be vague and indefinite , if not lacking altogether . We shall fear nature . We shall be afraid of night under the beautiful stars . We shall have little gen- uine admiration for nature and take little part in the life of ...
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... emotion that goes all over the body . You are expanded and full of life and vigor . Exclaim " Hurrah ! " many times ... emotions . Notice that the word " pride ' in the second stanza is used as courage , faith , or confidence in truth ...
... emotion that goes all over the body . You are expanded and full of life and vigor . Exclaim " Hurrah ! " many times ... emotions . Notice that the word " pride ' in the second stanza is used as courage , faith , or confidence in truth ...
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... emotions that thrill the whole body , patriotism is one of the most stirring . It does not excite us as do some others , but it seems to go through us with greater force . We ought to expand freely when we give this " Hurrah for the ...
... emotions that thrill the whole body , patriotism is one of the most stirring . It does not excite us as do some others , but it seems to go through us with greater force . We ought to expand freely when we give this " Hurrah for the ...
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... emotion that causes the laughter causes an expansion , not a tightening of the body . Do not force laughter in order to laugh loud , but keep the good conditions for tone and joy . Let your whole body share in it , and allow yourself to ...
... emotion that causes the laughter causes an expansion , not a tightening of the body . Do not force laughter in order to laugh loud , but keep the good conditions for tone and joy . Let your whole body share in it , and allow yourself to ...
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Page 96 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 102 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 194 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Page 263 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 143 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 171 - You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles?
Page 82 - Sail on! Sail on! Sail on! and on!'" They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, Until at last the blanched mate said: "Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave Adm'r'l; speak and say — " He said: "Sail on! Sail on! and on!
Page 254 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air, Sab'ring the gunners there...
Page 262 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 312 - But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and. Jesus standing on the right hand of God...