The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 páginas |
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... passion . The young reader should be careful to render his modulation correct and easy ; and for this purpose should form it upon the model of the most judicious and ac- curate speakers . B of practice , there are certainly proper ...
... passion . The young reader should be careful to render his modulation correct and easy ; and for this purpose should form it upon the model of the most judicious and ac- curate speakers . B of practice , there are certainly proper ...
Página xvi
... passions and emotions . We shall , howev- er , select one , which is extracted from the beautiful lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan , and which will , in some degree , elucidate what has been said on this subject . The beauty ...
... passions and emotions . We shall , howev- er , select one , which is extracted from the beautiful lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan , and which will , in some degree , elucidate what has been said on this subject . The beauty ...
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... passions and emo- tions . " In reading , let all your tones of expression be borrowed from those of common speech , but , in some degree , more faintly characterized . Let those tones which signify any disagreeable passion of the mind ...
... passions and emo- tions . " In reading , let all your tones of expression be borrowed from those of common speech , but , in some degree , more faintly characterized . Let those tones which signify any disagreeable passion of the mind ...
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... passions , can tell how far they may carry him . Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be at . tained , when the business of the world is tempered with thoughtful and serious retreat . He who would act like a wise man , and ...
... passions , can tell how far they may carry him . Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be at . tained , when the business of the world is tempered with thoughtful and serious retreat . He who would act like a wise man , and ...
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... passions of the bad , frustrate the effect of every advantage which the world confers on them . The external misfortunes of life , disappointments , poverty , and sickness , are light in comparison of those inward distresses of mind ...
... passions of the bad , frustrate the effect of every advantage which the world confers on them . The external misfortunes of life , disappointments , poverty , and sickness , are light in comparison of those inward distresses of mind ...
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Página 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.