Sequel to The Analytical Reader: In which the Original Design is Extended, So as to Embrace an Explanation of Phrases and Figurative LanguageShirley & Hyde, 1828 - 300 páginas |
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... dress designed to conceal , counterfeit show . What class of readers are here denominated unhap- py ? Why ? What name is commonly given to that previous determination which is here censured ? How does prejudice operate as an obstacle to ...
... dress designed to conceal , counterfeit show . What class of readers are here denominated unhap- py ? Why ? What name is commonly given to that previous determination which is here censured ? How does prejudice operate as an obstacle to ...
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... dress , plaited linen , to put in dis- order , to discompose . -Worked , labored , embroidered , did business , ferment- ed . -Settle , establish , arrange , put on properly , seat , bench . Time rolled away , time passed away . Whence ...
... dress , plaited linen , to put in dis- order , to discompose . -Worked , labored , embroidered , did business , ferment- ed . -Settle , establish , arrange , put on properly , seat , bench . Time rolled away , time passed away . Whence ...
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... dress , to her face ; and then as soon as she is no lon- ger present , not only abusing both her work and dress , but laughing at her weakness in believing the praise sin- cere ; lavishing encomiums on a man's abilities in his presence ...
... dress , to her face ; and then as soon as she is no lon- ger present , not only abusing both her work and dress , but laughing at her weakness in believing the praise sin- cere ; lavishing encomiums on a man's abilities in his presence ...
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... dress will furnish me with most of my illus- trations . It has been said that the great art of dress is to con- ccal defects and heighten beauties ; therefore , as con- cealment is deception , this great art of dress is founded on ...
... dress will furnish me with most of my illus- trations . It has been said that the great art of dress is to con- ccal defects and heighten beauties ; therefore , as con- cealment is deception , this great art of dress is founded on ...
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... dress ? Is it commendable to use this art ? Why not ? -Fancy , imagination , power of mind , conceit , imagine . Bloom , ruddiness , beautiful tint . Whence the allu- sion ? Avows , declares , proclaims , makes known . -Practice ...
... dress ? Is it commendable to use this art ? Why not ? -Fancy , imagination , power of mind , conceit , imagine . Bloom , ruddiness , beautiful tint . Whence the allu- sion ? Avows , declares , proclaims , makes known . -Practice ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 240 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Página 156 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and...
Página 222 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 40 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Página 270 - Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Página 236 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Página 283 - Will he make many supplications unto thee ? Will he speak soft words unto thee ? Will he make a covenant with thee ? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird ? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens...
Página 224 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 270 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1...
Página 283 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.