The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... tion or force . It is a Greek word , and when applied to speech , imports the marking by the voice any word or words in a phrase or sentence , as more important than the rest . The purpose of Emphasis may be effected in several ways ...
... tion or force . It is a Greek word , and when applied to speech , imports the marking by the voice any word or words in a phrase or sentence , as more important than the rest . The purpose of Emphasis may be effected in several ways ...
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... tion of the mind : as , in the following apostrophe of Adam in Milton's Paradise Lost : " O Goodness infinite ! Goodness immense ! That all this good of evil shall produce , And evil turn to good ; more wonderful Than that which by ...
... tion of the mind : as , in the following apostrophe of Adam in Milton's Paradise Lost : " O Goodness infinite ! Goodness immense ! That all this good of evil shall produce , And evil turn to good ; more wonderful Than that which by ...
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... tion to the brutes , to whom Nature has been more kind ,, and from whom we have learned the greatest part of the arts and sciences . The bees taught us politics , the ants economy . The first gave us an example of monarchy in the ...
... tion to the brutes , to whom Nature has been more kind ,, and from whom we have learned the greatest part of the arts and sciences . The bees taught us politics , the ants economy . The first gave us an example of monarchy in the ...
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... tion of the circumstances of the case out of which the speech arose . These introductory notices may , indeed , be consulted as sources both of instruction and amusement . They supply much information of a curious and interesting nature ...
... tion of the circumstances of the case out of which the speech arose . These introductory notices may , indeed , be consulted as sources both of instruction and amusement . They supply much information of a curious and interesting nature ...
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... tion of the work which is appropriated to the eloquence of Europe . But the editor promises , at a future period , not too remote , to add to the collection a volume of American speeches , and intimates , if he re- * Mr. Dennie . ceive ...
... tion of the work which is appropriated to the eloquence of Europe . But the editor promises , at a future period , not too remote , to add to the collection a volume of American speeches , and intimates , if he re- * Mr. Dennie . ceive ...
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