McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic Series. Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: with Copious Rules and Rhetorical ExercisesW. B. Smith & Company, 1853 - 480 pages |
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... little brook , " this is something like life ! What a fine world this is ! A little chilly , though , and I feel , I do n't know how , quite dazzled and confounded . But tomorrow , when that great red orb comes over - head again , I ...
... little brook , " this is something like life ! What a fine world this is ! A little chilly , though , and I feel , I do n't know how , quite dazzled and confounded . But tomorrow , when that great red orb comes over - head again , I ...
Page 275
... brook admired the stateliness of their carriage , and persuaded herself , it was eminently graceful , " for undoubtedly , they are persons of distinguished rank , " quoth she , " and how much finer voices they must have , than those little ...
... brook admired the stateliness of their carriage , and persuaded herself , it was eminently graceful , " for undoubtedly , they are persons of distinguished rank , " quoth she , " and how much finer voices they must have , than those little ...
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... little brook , than just so many drops as filled the hollow of one of those large pebbles which had paved its unsullied basin , in the day of its brightness and beauty . But never , in the season of its brightest plenitude , was the ...
... little brook , than just so many drops as filled the hollow of one of those large pebbles which had paved its unsullied basin , in the day of its brightness and beauty . But never , in the season of its brightest plenitude , was the ...
Contents
PART I | 13 |
The Hour of Prayer | 15 |
Character of Napoleon Bonaparte | 20 |
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