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... feeling grateful to Mr. Walker ; -him I consider as my professional parent . To his efforts , in truth , is the British public indebted for more correct and valuable in- formation on this subject , than is to be found concentrated in ...
... feeling grateful to Mr. Walker ; -him I consider as my professional parent . To his efforts , in truth , is the British public indebted for more correct and valuable in- formation on this subject , than is to be found concentrated in ...
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... feeling alone will command the attention of his hearers ! ) When the left hand is not in action , ( especially at the commencement of his discourse , ) it may occasionally rest on the ledge of the pulpit ; and the right may occupy a ...
... feeling alone will command the attention of his hearers ! ) When the left hand is not in action , ( especially at the commencement of his discourse , ) it may occasionally rest on the ledge of the pulpit ; and the right may occupy a ...
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... feel completely at his ease ! He who preaches from notes will be perpetually embarrassed between his book and his audience ; -his action will necessarily be stiff , if not unnatural , and the current of his feelings liable to constant ...
... feel completely at his ease ! He who preaches from notes will be perpetually embarrassed between his book and his audience ; -his action will necessarily be stiff , if not unnatural , and the current of his feelings liable to constant ...
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... " * When the definite question is protracted to a considerable length , and concludes a paragraph , the falling inflexion must be used instead of the rising . " Do we not sometimes feel the most at our 20 INTRODUCTION . Interrogation.
... " * When the definite question is protracted to a considerable length , and concludes a paragraph , the falling inflexion must be used instead of the rising . " Do we not sometimes feel the most at our 20 INTRODUCTION . Interrogation.
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John Hall Hindmarsh. " Do we not sometimes feel the most at our ea'se , when we may be treading the confines of some im'minent dan " ger ? " " Are we not often the least thoughtful , when our situation demands the utmost se " riousness ...
John Hall Hindmarsh. " Do we not sometimes feel the most at our ea'se , when we may be treading the confines of some im'minent dan " ger ? " " Are we not often the least thoughtful , when our situation demands the utmost se " riousness ...
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Page 102 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 104 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that, on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Page 249 - THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which 'spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Page 314 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse: Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires
Page 86 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 104 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 255 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 158 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 291 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or confectionary plum...
Page 106 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...