An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtWeare C. Little, 1860 - 300 pages |
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... sufferings are but the trials of gallant spirits . If you will have a constant vigorous health , a per petual spring of youth , use temperance . It is the glory of a man that hath abundance , to live as reason , not as appetite directs ...
... sufferings are but the trials of gallant spirits . If you will have a constant vigorous health , a per petual spring of youth , use temperance . It is the glory of a man that hath abundance , to live as reason , not as appetite directs ...
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... sufferings will be his armour , and his weakness will be his strength ; he will find himself in the hands of a brave , a just , and a generous nation - he will find that the bright ex- amples of her Russels and her Sidneys have not been ...
... sufferings will be his armour , and his weakness will be his strength ; he will find himself in the hands of a brave , a just , and a generous nation - he will find that the bright ex- amples of her Russels and her Sidneys have not been ...
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... sufferings have been mitigated by a sense of the feebleness of that aid , or the smallness of that service , which I could render or withdraw . They would have been aggrava- ted by the consciousness that however feeble or worth- less ...
... sufferings have been mitigated by a sense of the feebleness of that aid , or the smallness of that service , which I could render or withdraw . They would have been aggrava- ted by the consciousness that however feeble or worth- less ...
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... sufferings ? Shall they be found , let me ask you , in the accursed bands of imps and minions that bask in their disgrace , and fatten upon their spoils , and flourish upon their ruin ? But let me not put this to you as a merely ...
... sufferings ? Shall they be found , let me ask you , in the accursed bands of imps and minions that bask in their disgrace , and fatten upon their spoils , and flourish upon their ruin ? But let me not put this to you as a merely ...
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... sufferings must remain forever before our eyes , a continual call upon your shame and your remorse . But those sufferings will do more ; they will not rest satis- fied with your unavailing contrition , they will challenge the great and ...
... sufferings must remain forever before our eyes , a continual call upon your shame and your remorse . But those sufferings will do more ; they will not rest satis- fied with your unavailing contrition , they will challenge the great and ...
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Page 119 - It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take;...
Page 150 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
Page 237 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 150 - 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 72 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Page 17 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 131 - Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together...
Page 270 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 273 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 128 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...