The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 7
... orthoepy and emphasis , his oratory will be but as sounding brass , or a tinkling cymbal . " The object of language is to communicate information to the 66 mind or improvement to the understanding , which are certainly. ON EMPHASIS .
... orthoepy and emphasis , his oratory will be but as sounding brass , or a tinkling cymbal . " The object of language is to communicate information to the 66 mind or improvement to the understanding , which are certainly. ON EMPHASIS .
Page 17
... object to excite laughter rather than lamentation ? This reprimand , accompanied by a flood of tears , was not sufficient to damp the mirth of the other . I laughed at both , because I saw that they were both actuated by envy and malice ...
... object to excite laughter rather than lamentation ? This reprimand , accompanied by a flood of tears , was not sufficient to damp the mirth of the other . I laughed at both , because I saw that they were both actuated by envy and malice ...
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... objects of the work . After some preliminary observations , intended principally to show that he had not been anticipated in this literary project , the Editor proceeds to inform us , that , incited by a conviction of its importance ...
... objects of the work . After some preliminary observations , intended principally to show that he had not been anticipated in this literary project , the Editor proceeds to inform us , that , incited by a conviction of its importance ...
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... object of indifference to a free people . Eloquence has always been admi- red and studied , but never with more ardour and success , than by republi- cans . It engages particularly their attention , because it opens to them the widest ...
... object of indifference to a free people . Eloquence has always been admi- red and studied , but never with more ardour and success , than by republi- cans . It engages particularly their attention , because it opens to them the widest ...
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... object was to comply with the wishes of his patroness as nearly as he could ; and after enlivening the scenes of the two Henrys , and surpassing in interest even Hotspur and the Prince of Wales , Falstaff was again in- the troduced upon ...
... object was to comply with the wishes of his patroness as nearly as he could ; and after enlivening the scenes of the two Henrys , and surpassing in interest even Hotspur and the Prince of Wales , Falstaff was again in- the troduced upon ...
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