Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryC. Dilly, 1790 - 1019 sider |
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... most important with respect to each of thefe .. In order to be fully and easily under- flood , the four chief requifites are , A due degree of loudnefs of voice ; Distinctness ; Slownefs ; and , Propriety of Pronuncia- tion . The first ...
... most important with respect to each of thefe .. In order to be fully and easily under- flood , the four chief requifites are , A due degree of loudnefs of voice ; Distinctness ; Slownefs ; and , Propriety of Pronuncia- tion . The first ...
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... most in earnest , and fought moft to be liftened to . Carry thefe with you to the bar , to the pulpit , or to any public affem- bly ; let thefe be the foundation of your manner of pronouncing there ; and you will take the fureft method ...
... most in earnest , and fought moft to be liftened to . Carry thefe with you to the bar , to the pulpit , or to any public affem- bly ; let thefe be the foundation of your manner of pronouncing there ; and you will take the fureft method ...
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... most becoming manner . For this end , it has been advised by writers on this fubject , to practife before a mirror , where one may fee , and judge of his own geftures . But I am afraid , perfons are not always the best judges of the ...
... most becoming manner . For this end , it has been advised by writers on this fubject , to practife before a mirror , where one may fee , and judge of his own geftures . But I am afraid , perfons are not always the best judges of the ...
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... most perfons ; if they will only un- learn falfe and corrupt habits ; if they will allow themselves to follow nature , and will fpeak in public , as they do in private , when they speak in earneft , and from the heart . If one has ...
... most perfons ; if they will only un- learn falfe and corrupt habits ; if they will allow themselves to follow nature , and will fpeak in public , as they do in private , when they speak in earneft , and from the heart . If one has ...
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... most bufied at fuch hours when thofe of other men are the most unactive . He no fooner steps out of the world but his heart burns with devotion , fwells with hope , and triumphs in the con- fcioufnefs of that prefence which every where ...
... most bufied at fuch hours when thofe of other men are the most unactive . He no fooner steps out of the world but his heart burns with devotion , fwells with hope , and triumphs in the con- fcioufnefs of that prefence which every where ...
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Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volum 2 Vicesimus Knox Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1794 |
Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volum 2 Vicesimus Knox Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1794 |
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Side 279 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Side 251 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Side 266 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Side 282 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Side 437 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Side 434 - Shakespeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the world open before him. The rules of the ancients were yet known to few; the public judgment was unformed; he had no example of such fame as might force him upon imitation, nor critics of such authority as might restrain his extravagance.
Side 282 - GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort ; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Side 1 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and...
Side 285 - GRANT, O merciful God, that as thine holy Apostle Saint James, leaving his father and all that he had, without delay was obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him ; so we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Side 266 - Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day ; defend us in the same with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger ; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord.