An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindPublished and sold by David Hogan, 1809 - 230 страница |
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... Eggleston , who is next heir to your uncle's estate , if you die without children , or change your name when you ... Eggleston has a large family and a small fortune , and that very much encum- bered . It cannot therefore be expected ...
... Eggleston , who is next heir to your uncle's estate , if you die without children , or change your name when you ... Eggleston has a large family and a small fortune , and that very much encum- bered . It cannot therefore be expected ...
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... Eggleston is simply this ; to beg you will satisfy him upon what ground you now evade the will of your late uncle ; which till explained , appears to bẹ a point much to his prejudice . Cec . Tell him then , Sir , that whatever he wishes ...
... Eggleston is simply this ; to beg you will satisfy him upon what ground you now evade the will of your late uncle ; which till explained , appears to bẹ a point much to his prejudice . Cec . Tell him then , Sir , that whatever he wishes ...
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... Eggleston never au- thorised you to make use of this language to me . Gent . Mr. Eggleston , Madam , has behaved very honora- bly , though he knew the whole affair , he supposed Mr. Del- vill had good reasons for a short concealment ...
... Eggleston never au- thorised you to make use of this language to me . Gent . Mr. Eggleston , Madam , has behaved very honora- bly , though he knew the whole affair , he supposed Mr. Del- vill had good reasons for a short concealment ...
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... Eggleston brought the first news of it , for he said all the servants there talked of no- thing else , and that their master was to come and take pos- session here next Thursday . Cec . Yet you envy me , though I am forced to leave my ...
... Eggleston brought the first news of it , for he said all the servants there talked of no- thing else , and that their master was to come and take pos- session here next Thursday . Cec . Yet you envy me , though I am forced to leave my ...
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Страница 207 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Страница 214 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Страница 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
Страница 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
Страница 79 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Страница 190 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Страница 153 - Italy, bind, scourge, torture with fire and red hot plates of iron, and at last put to the infamous death of the cross, a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman commonwealth, nor the...
Страница 169 - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
Страница 208 - Long in his highness' favor, and do justice For truth's sake, and his conscience ; that his bones, When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
Страница 217 - When that rash humor, which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful ? Bru. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.