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... voice ; but these are the adjuncts , not the high essentials of Oratory ; and , we confess , we are at a loss to understand why , by many , so great and undue a stress is laid upon action and gesture vi INTRODUCTORY .
... voice ; but these are the adjuncts , not the high essentials of Oratory ; and , we confess , we are at a loss to understand why , by many , so great and undue a stress is laid upon action and gesture vi INTRODUCTORY .
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... voice , by which we give utterance to any strong emotion or passion ; from the energetic burst of feeling to the softest whisper . The human voice has a vast range of expression , so that even the more sagacious among animals can ...
... voice , by which we give utterance to any strong emotion or passion ; from the energetic burst of feeling to the softest whisper . The human voice has a vast range of expression , so that even the more sagacious among animals can ...
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... voice , not in a louder , but rather in a lower , though stronger tone , as- Ex . After we have practised good actions awhile , they become easy , and when they are easy we begin to take a pleasure in them ; and when they please us we ...
... voice , not in a louder , but rather in a lower , though stronger tone , as- Ex . After we have practised good actions awhile , they become easy , and when they are easy we begin to take a pleasure in them ; and when they please us we ...
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... voice , and how you impress your listeners , but , as far as you can , forgetting yourself , and entering into the feelings and sentiments of the author : and a caution to youthful readers may here not be ill - timed , viz . , that they ...
... voice , and how you impress your listeners , but , as far as you can , forgetting yourself , and entering into the feelings and sentiments of the author : and a caution to youthful readers may here not be ill - timed , viz . , that they ...
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... voice , O my son Absalom , O Absalom , my son , my son ! would God I had died for thee , O Absalom , my son , my son ! " More pathetic , as far more dignified , is the lament of our blessed Redeemer over the guilty City that rejected ...
... voice , O my son Absalom , O Absalom , my son , my son ! would God I had died for thee , O Absalom , my son , my son ! " More pathetic , as far more dignified , is the lament of our blessed Redeemer over the guilty City that rejected ...
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Page 101 - When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did He see it, and declare it : He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 123 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Page 53 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 90 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 124 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep, then, the path ; For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Page 48 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age ;* Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er!
Page 78 - And, besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue ; and to virtue, knowledge ; And to knowledge, temperance ; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, godliness ; And to godliness, brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 110 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 52 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 114 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...