The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education:: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... 18. Drawing, Engraving, and Painting. And Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Band 1H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - 458 Seiten Systematized information on many subjects, appropriate for self-instruction. |
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... fide the river . " Ezra , iv . 16 , " I have wept not this forty years . " It should be thefe means ; thefe forty years . Again , " They are thefe kind of gods which Horace mentions in his allegorical vef- fel . " - Addifon's Dialogues ...
... fide the river . " Ezra , iv . 16 , " I have wept not this forty years . " It should be thefe means ; thefe forty years . Again , " They are thefe kind of gods which Horace mentions in his allegorical vef- fel . " - Addifon's Dialogues ...
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... fide ( that hardly ever spake in public without a bluft ) had a wonderful fweetnefs of nature . " This point marks a moderate depreffion of the voice , with a paufe fome- what greater than a còmma . There are alfo other marks used in ...
... fide ( that hardly ever spake in public without a bluft ) had a wonderful fweetnefs of nature . " This point marks a moderate depreffion of the voice , with a paufe fome- what greater than a còmma . There are alfo other marks used in ...
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... fide of the pen , called the belly of the quill , and must be bent a little in the joint . The top of the pen fhould point towards the right fhoulder . The elbow fhould be drawn in towards the body , but not too clofe . The arm arm may ...
... fide of the pen , called the belly of the quill , and must be bent a little in the joint . The top of the pen fhould point towards the right fhoulder . The elbow fhould be drawn in towards the body , but not too clofe . The arm arm may ...
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... fide of the quill quite through , near half an inch from the end . The quill will now appear forked ; next cut away a very short flit in the back notch , where the flit of the pen is to be ; and putting the peg of the penknife haft , or ...
... fide of the quill quite through , near half an inch from the end . The quill will now appear forked ; next cut away a very short flit in the back notch , where the flit of the pen is to be ; and putting the peg of the penknife haft , or ...
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... fide of the page , at the top of the letter ; and the letter begun just under it : the name of the writer at the bottom of the letter , on the right hand ; the date of the letter , either on the right hand , at the top of the letter ...
... fide of the page , at the top of the letter ; and the letter begun just under it : the name of the writer at the bottom of the letter , on the right hand ; the date of the letter , either on the right hand , at the top of the letter ...
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Seite 66 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 51 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Seite 65 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Seite 66 - Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh ! there...
Seite 112 - The prince went to Rome to defend his father; but coming into the senate and hearing a multitude of crimes proved upon him, was so oppressed when it came to his turn to speak that he was unable to utter a word.
Seite 65 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Seite 111 - I know no two words that have been more abused by the different and wrong interpretations which are put upon them, than those two, modesty and assurance. To say, such a one is a modest man, sometimes indeed passes for a good character ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish, awkward fellow, who has neither good breeding, politeness, nor any knowledge of the world.
Seite 208 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Seite 112 - For this reason a man truly modest is as much so when he is alone as in company, and as subject to a blush in his closet, as when the eyes of multitudes are upon him. . , I do not remember to have met with any...
Seite 48 - ... such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.