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 sivua |
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Sivu 19
... virtue , by exhibiting vice in a ludi- crous appearance . Nor should I think raillery unworthy the attention of the lawyer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unusefully , in his pleadings , as well as any other stroke of ornament ...
... virtue , by exhibiting vice in a ludi- crous appearance . Nor should I think raillery unworthy the attention of the lawyer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unusefully , in his pleadings , as well as any other stroke of ornament ...
Sivu 32
... them , The spirit of what he says , or is said to him , appears in his look . If he expres- ses amazement , or would excite it , he lifts his hands up and eyes . If he invites to virtue and happiness 32 ELEMENTS , & c .
... them , The spirit of what he says , or is said to him , appears in his look . If he expres- ses amazement , or would excite it , he lifts his hands up and eyes . If he invites to virtue and happiness 32 ELEMENTS , & c .
Sivu 33
... virtue and happiness , he spreads his arms , and looks benevolent . If he threatens the ven- geance of heaven against vice , he bends his eyebrow into wrath , and menaces with his arm and countenance . He does not needlessly saw the air ...
... virtue and happiness , he spreads his arms , and looks benevolent . If he threatens the ven- geance of heaven against vice , he bends his eyebrow into wrath , and menaces with his arm and countenance . He does not needlessly saw the air ...
Sivu 45
... virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have not . Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so ...
... virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have not . Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so ...
Sivu 46
... virtue , or their vice , to edu cation as much as to nature . There is no such fop as my young master , of his lady mother's making . She blows him up with self - conceit , and there he stops . She makes a man of him at twelve , and a ...
... virtue , or their vice , to edu cation as much as to nature . There is no such fop as my young master , of his lady mother's making . She blows him up with self - conceit , and there he stops . She makes a man of him at twelve , and a ...
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action admiration appear arms beauty behold blood body breast Brutus Cæsar Caius Verres Carthaginians charm cheerfulness Cicero Clodius countenance danger dear death delight earth enemy express eyes father fear fortune friends give glory grace hand happy hath head hear heart heaven honor hope hour human Jugurtha Keswick kind king Lady G live look Lord mankind manner master Micipsa Milo mind mouth nature never night noble Numidia o'er object once pain passion Patricians peace person pleasure Plebeian Pompey praise privy counsellor Quintilian Rhadamanthus rise Roman Roman senate Rome Saguntum scene sense Sicily side smile soul sound speak speaker Spectator speech spirit sweet taste tears tell thee thing thou thought tion truth Twas uncle Toby virtue voice whole words young youth