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 Mind : Being the Third Part of A Grammatical Institute of the English LanguageEvert Duyckinck, bookseller and stationer, 1804 - 236 Seiten |
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... savage . This war . rior , availing himself of the indefensible attitude of his adver- sary , with a tremendous war whoop , sprang forward , with his lifted hatchet , and compelled him to surrender ; and having disarmed and bound him ...
... savage . This war . rior , availing himself of the indefensible attitude of his adver- sary , with a tremendous war whoop , sprang forward , with his lifted hatchet , and compelled him to surrender ; and having disarmed and bound him ...
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... savage chose an odd way of discovering his hu- mor . He found Putnam bound . He might have dispatched him at a blow . But he loved better to excite the terrors of the prisoner , by hurling a tomahawk at his head - or rather it should ...
... savage chose an odd way of discovering his hu- mor . He found Putnam bound . He might have dispatched him at a blow . But he loved better to excite the terrors of the prisoner , by hurling a tomahawk at his head - or rather it should ...
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... savage chief again returned to the care of the wounded , and the Indians , about two hundred in number , went before the rest of the party to the place where the whole were that night to encamp . They took with them Major Putnam , on ...
... savage chief again returned to the care of the wounded , and the Indians , about two hundred in number , went before the rest of the party to the place where the whole were that night to encamp . They took with them Major Putnam , on ...
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... savage , unwilling to see another human sacrifice immolated , had run and communicated the tidings . 25. That commandant spurned and severely reprimanded the barbarians , whose nocturnal Powwas he suddenly ended . Put- nam did not want ...
... savage , unwilling to see another human sacrifice immolated , had run and communicated the tidings . 25. That commandant spurned and severely reprimanded the barbarians , whose nocturnal Powwas he suddenly ended . Put- nam did not want ...
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... savage brutality he applied the scalping kaifs , and hastened away with this trophy of his horrid cruelty , leaving the officer for dead , and none to relieve or console him , but his faithful dog . . The afflicted creature gave every ...
... savage brutality he applied the scalping kaifs , and hastened away with this trophy of his horrid cruelty , leaving the officer for dead , and none to relieve or console him , but his faithful dog . . The afflicted creature gave every ...
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Seite 183 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Seite 181 - 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...
Seite 179 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 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.
Seite 10 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Seite 179 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing...
Seite 10 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Seite 10 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home: But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Seite 198 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Seite 195 - The whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Seite 182 - 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...