The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 strán (strany) |
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Strana 7
... force with which he utters his words , than upon the height , at which he pitches his voice . But it is an essential qualification of a good speaker , to be able to alter the height , as well as the strength and the tone of his voice ...
... force with which he utters his words , than upon the height , at which he pitches his voice . But it is an essential qualification of a good speaker , to be able to alter the height , as well as the strength and the tone of his voice ...
Strana 10
... force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest stress on conjunctive particles , and other words of secondary importance . These faults are strongly charac- terized in ...
... force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest stress on conjunctive particles , and other words of secondary importance . These faults are strongly charac- terized in ...
Strana 14
... forces to operate upon the people themselves . These measures alarmed the republicans ; they remonstrated , they cla- mored , they appealed to the people , and by a national sentence , the men then in power were taken down from their ...
... forces to operate upon the people themselves . These measures alarmed the republicans ; they remonstrated , they cla- mored , they appealed to the people , and by a national sentence , the men then in power were taken down from their ...
Strana 16
... force , this attempt made by that go- vernment , to subject our maritime rights to the arbitrary and capricious rule of her will ; for my part , I am not prepared to say , that this country shall submit to have her commerce interdicted ...
... force , this attempt made by that go- vernment , to subject our maritime rights to the arbitrary and capricious rule of her will ; for my part , I am not prepared to say , that this country shall submit to have her commerce interdicted ...
Strana 17
... force our non- importation law against Great Britain ; without a viola- tion of national faith we cannot repeal it . What effects is the operation of this law producing ? It is demoralizing our citizens : men of commercial habits cannot ...
... force our non- importation law against Great Britain ; without a viola- tion of national faith we cannot repeal it . What effects is the operation of this law producing ? It is demoralizing our citizens : men of commercial habits cannot ...
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Strana 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Strana 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Strana 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Strana 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Strana 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Strana 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Strana 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Strana 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...