The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools in the United States, to which is Prefixed an Introduction on the Arts of Reading and SpeakingR. P. & C. Williams, 1815 - 204 pages |
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Page 55
... behold the perfect model of a public character ; and we behold the most beautiful example of private life , when we contemplate him among his disciples , as a father in the midst of his family . By such means , he has exhibited before ...
... behold the perfect model of a public character ; and we behold the most beautiful example of private life , when we contemplate him among his disciples , as a father in the midst of his family . By such means , he has exhibited before ...
Page 99
... behold what remains of this power- ful city ; a miserable skeleton ! what of its vast domi- nation ; a doubtful and empty remembrance ! To the noisy concourse which thronged under these porticoes succeeds the solitude of death . The ...
... behold what remains of this power- ful city ; a miserable skeleton ! what of its vast domi- nation ; a doubtful and empty remembrance ! To the noisy concourse which thronged under these porticoes succeeds the solitude of death . The ...
Page 141
... behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen re- cesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straights , whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctick circle , we hear that they have pierced into the opposite re- gion of polar cold ...
... behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen re- cesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straights , whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctick circle , we hear that they have pierced into the opposite re- gion of polar cold ...
Contents
General Observations on the Arts of Reading and Speaking | ix |
Delineation of some of the most powerful passions | xxviii |
On the Reading or Recitation of different Species of Prose | xxxvi |
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