Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : as Well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste : with an Appendix ...Peter B. Gleason, 1812 - 382 páginas |
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... Rome ever bred : and Quintilian says , that he spoke with the same force with which he fought ; and if he had devoted himself to the bar , would have been the only man capable of rivaling Cicero . Nor was he a master only of the politer ...
... Rome ever bred : and Quintilian says , that he spoke with the same force with which he fought ; and if he had devoted himself to the bar , would have been the only man capable of rivaling Cicero . Nor was he a master only of the politer ...
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... Rome ; but disdaining the condition of a subject , he could never rest till he had made himself a monarch . In acting this last part , his usual prudence seemed to fail him ; as if the height to which he was mounted had turned his head ...
... Rome ; but disdaining the condition of a subject , he could never rest till he had made himself a monarch . In acting this last part , his usual prudence seemed to fail him ; as if the height to which he was mounted had turned his head ...
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... Rome . We can talk of life and death in cold blood , and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us . Though our zeal breaks out in the finest tropes and figures , it is not able to stir a limb about ...
... Rome . We can talk of life and death in cold blood , and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us . Though our zeal breaks out in the finest tropes and figures , it is not able to stir a limb about ...
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... Rome . I must add , that history is not only a valuable part of knowledge , but opens the door to many other parts of knowledge , and affords materials to most of the sciences . And indeed , if we consider the shortness of human life ...
... Rome . I must add , that history is not only a valuable part of knowledge , but opens the door to many other parts of knowledge , and affords materials to most of the sciences . And indeed , if we consider the shortness of human life ...
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... Rome , rous- ed by ambition and mutual complaints , took the field , and were on the eve of a bloody battle . The Alban general , to prevent the effusion of blood , proposed to Hostilius 120 [ PART I. LESSONS IN READING .
... Rome , rous- ed by ambition and mutual complaints , took the field , and were on the eve of a bloody battle . The Alban general , to prevent the effusion of blood , proposed to Hostilius 120 [ PART I. LESSONS IN READING .
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