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... attending a single lecture on Botany , either private or public " . In spite of these untoward circum- stances ARTEDI applied himself with great assiduity to his science , and thanks to his good parts he was soon accounted one of the ...
... attending a single lecture on Botany , either private or public " . In spite of these untoward circum- stances ARTEDI applied himself with great assiduity to his science , and thanks to his good parts he was soon accounted one of the ...
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... attend to the claims of friendship and society . He was a zealous and successful teacher , to whom the imparting of knowledge was a source of unalloyed and inexhaustible pleasure . His pupils could not fail to be favorably impressed by ...
... attend to the claims of friendship and society . He was a zealous and successful teacher , to whom the imparting of knowledge was a source of unalloyed and inexhaustible pleasure . His pupils could not fail to be favorably impressed by ...
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... attend the meetings of the scientific commission to which we have previously referred . He was , therefore , no longer able to avail himself of the recuperating influence of mountain air , and in view of this his valuable life may be ...
... attend the meetings of the scientific commission to which we have previously referred . He was , therefore , no longer able to avail himself of the recuperating influence of mountain air , and in view of this his valuable life may be ...
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... attended , was impressive beyond ability adequately to be described in words . In the commencement of the ever memor- able address on " Fundamentals of Elocution , " delivered by Prof. Bell , he tersely stated : " Elocution is an art ...
... attended , was impressive beyond ability adequately to be described in words . In the commencement of the ever memor- able address on " Fundamentals of Elocution , " delivered by Prof. Bell , he tersely stated : " Elocution is an art ...
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... attend the convention , he made a special journey of two thousand miles , foregoing the coolness and quiet of his distinguished son's summer Canadian home . Well might the members of the National Association of Elocutionists rise to ...
... attend the convention , he made a special journey of two thousand miles , foregoing the coolness and quiet of his distinguished son's summer Canadian home . Well might the members of the National Association of Elocutionists rise to ...
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Page 12 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Page 8 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Page 8 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Page 8 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 10 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 8 - ... same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.