Sequel to The Analytical Reader: In which the Original Design is Extended, So as to Embrace an Explanation of Phrases and Figurative LanguageShirley & Hyde, 1828 - 300 Seiten |
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... expressing them , are so necessary , that , if a learner is deficient , his progress ought to be suspended , till he has become complete master of them . In order to express ourselves distinctly , moderation is requisite with regard to ...
... expressing them , are so necessary , that , if a learner is deficient , his progress ought to be suspended , till he has become complete master of them . In order to express ourselves distinctly , moderation is requisite with regard to ...
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... expressing his contempt for common preachers . " The monotone is the continuation of the voice upon certain syllables without any variation , and may be marked thus ( - ) . It is used with great effect in a sol- emn tone and sublime ...
... expressing his contempt for common preachers . " The monotone is the continuation of the voice upon certain syllables without any variation , and may be marked thus ( - ) . It is used with great effect in a sol- emn tone and sublime ...
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... expressing this assurance in a peremptory and positive manner . A dogmatical spirit has many inconveniences attend- ing it . It stops the ear against all further reasoning , and shuts up the mind from all further knowledge on the ...
... expressing this assurance in a peremptory and positive manner . A dogmatical spirit has many inconveniences attend- ing it . It stops the ear against all further reasoning , and shuts up the mind from all further knowledge on the ...
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... expression ? .Bounded , hedged , limited , confined . Crafty , cunning , dexterous , sagacious , from craft . Contemn , despise , disregard , treat with contumely . Wise . What adverb is derived from it ? Use them , profit by them , are ...
... expression ? .Bounded , hedged , limited , confined . Crafty , cunning , dexterous , sagacious , from craft . Contemn , despise , disregard , treat with contumely . Wise . What adverb is derived from it ? Use them , profit by them , are ...
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... expression of displeasure and suspicion as though some change had taken place in me , though I am sure it was no fault of mine ; indeed I could never reflect upon myself for a moment , with regard to my conduct towards any of my owners ...
... expression of displeasure and suspicion as though some change had taken place in me , though I am sure it was no fault of mine ; indeed I could never reflect upon myself for a moment , with regard to my conduct towards any of my owners ...
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adjective adverb affection Aleppo alogy ancholy appearance Beau ideal beauty bloom body bright called Change clouds color cottage countenance course dark daugh daughter dear Jane death dreadful dress earth England evil books falsehood father fear feelings figure fire grave guilty habit happy heard heart heaven hope human Iliad inflection Jane knowledge labor Lake George lava LESSON lies light living look looking-glass lying manner mark meaning meant ment mind mistress moral morning mountain nature never night noun object obliged passed pause persons pleasure prayer principles reading reason rising rocks ruins scene shine sight Sir William Jones slaves sorrow soul Spell spirit splendor stars stream sublime sweet Jane thee things thou thought tion truth utter verb voice volcano Whence the allusion wind wisdom Wiser sex word
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Seite 240 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Seite 156 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and...
Seite 222 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Seite 40 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Seite 270 - Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Seite 236 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Seite 283 - Will he make many supplications unto thee ? Will he speak soft words unto thee ? Will he make a covenant with thee ? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird ? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens...
Seite 224 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Seite 270 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1...
Seite 283 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.