The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
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Pagina 25
... look , and such action and in- tonation as may tend to excite ridicule and contempt , must be assumed by the speaker . But great caution should be used in the exercise of this mode ; for if an argument of real weight be treated in a ...
... look , and such action and in- tonation as may tend to excite ridicule and contempt , must be assumed by the speaker . But great caution should be used in the exercise of this mode ; for if an argument of real weight be treated in a ...
Pagina 26
... looks , the tones , the gestures must be accommodated to their nature , but , says professor Ward in his system of oratory , an orator should always keep within those bounds which nature seems to have prescribed for him . Some are ...
... looks , the tones , the gestures must be accommodated to their nature , but , says professor Ward in his system of oratory , an orator should always keep within those bounds which nature seems to have prescribed for him . Some are ...
Pagina 37
... look out upon the roof , or a vane at the gable end ; to see what ships have arrived from sea or whether the wind is fair for the pack- ets . Sea phrases accordingly prevail in familiar conversation . Every child can tell which way the ...
... look out upon the roof , or a vane at the gable end ; to see what ships have arrived from sea or whether the wind is fair for the pack- ets . Sea phrases accordingly prevail in familiar conversation . Every child can tell which way the ...
Pagina 38
... at 9 o'clock , to warn the citizens to their homes ; and one of the steeples , in the true spirit of commercial usefulness , has been constructed with . a view to serve for a look - out . 38 DESCRIPTION OF NANTUCKET .
... at 9 o'clock , to warn the citizens to their homes ; and one of the steeples , in the true spirit of commercial usefulness , has been constructed with . a view to serve for a look - out . 38 DESCRIPTION OF NANTUCKET .
Pagina 39
a view to serve for a look - out . It commands the whole island , together with its sea girt horizon ; and there is one individual , whose observant eye is sharp enough , with the help of glasses , to distinguish the different vessels ...
a view to serve for a look - out . It commands the whole island , together with its sea girt horizon ; and there is one individual , whose observant eye is sharp enough , with the help of glasses , to distinguish the different vessels ...
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