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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... whole throat should be passive and relaxed and open . The right condition of the throat and tone passage can result only from the right retention of the breath , the co- ordination of activity , or an elastic sense of fulness in the ...
... whole throat should be passive and relaxed and open . The right condition of the throat and tone passage can result only from the right retention of the breath , the co- ordination of activity , or an elastic sense of fulness in the ...
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... whole day at a time . It was thought best to call a meeting of all the crows in the country , far and near , to see if some plan could not be hit upon by which the dangerous thing could be gotten rid of . The meeting was held in a corn ...
... whole day at a time . It was thought best to call a meeting of all the crows in the country , far and near , to see if some plan could not be hit upon by which the dangerous thing could be gotten rid of . The meeting was held in a corn ...
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... and breeze is not so definite as human song or as words . Still , after you have looked it up in the dictionary and found out all this you will have a vague idea not only of this word , but of the whole poem if you RECEIVING IDEAS 23.
... and breeze is not so definite as human song or as words . Still , after you have looked it up in the dictionary and found out all this you will have a vague idea not only of this word , but of the whole poem if you RECEIVING IDEAS 23.
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... whole poem if you have not listened to the soft murmur of the breeze among the oaks or pines . Definite , adequate ideas can be secured only by adequate attention . This attention to things must be followed by attention to the meaning ...
... whole poem if you have not listened to the soft murmur of the breeze among the oaks or pines . Definite , adequate ideas can be secured only by adequate attention . This attention to things must be followed by attention to the meaning ...
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... whole nature should awake and as a result we should be moved to express what we really feel . By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows ! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose ! Lo , such the child whose ...
... whole nature should awake and as a result we should be moved to express what we really feel . By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows ! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose ! Lo , such the child whose ...
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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...