The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. CarpenterJoseph Edwards Carpenter 1869 |
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... passing with an easy motion from object to object , but not dwelling too long on one . Care must be taken to distinguish it from insensibility . 2. CHEERFULNESS adds a smile to tranquillity , and opens the mouth a little more . 3. MIRTH ...
... passing with an easy motion from object to object , but not dwelling too long on one . Care must be taken to distinguish it from insensibility . 2. CHEERFULNESS adds a smile to tranquillity , and opens the mouth a little more . 3. MIRTH ...
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... passing through their minds , and the faint impression which it leaves will soon vanish to make way for others , like the traces which the ebbing tide leaves upon the sand . Nor is this all . In proportion as the associating principles ...
... passing through their minds , and the faint impression which it leaves will soon vanish to make way for others , like the traces which the ebbing tide leaves upon the sand . Nor is this all . In proportion as the associating principles ...
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... passed unregretted or unseen ; or , if the apathy be ever shaken off , even for an instant , it is only by what is gross or what is extraordinary ; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies , not ...
... passed unregretted or unseen ; or , if the apathy be ever shaken off , even for an instant , it is only by what is gross or what is extraordinary ; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies , not ...
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... passed , and lose them in the hollow distance , he would lie and watch the many - coloured ring about the candle ... passing and repassing ; and would fall asleep , or be troubled with a restless and uneasy sense again— the child could ...
... passed , and lose them in the hollow distance , he would lie and watch the many - coloured ring about the candle ... passing and repassing ; and would fall asleep , or be troubled with a restless and uneasy sense again— the child could ...
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... passed there . He had one of these little sticks in his hand , and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap . As I darkened the little light he had , he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door , then ...
... passed there . He had one of these little sticks in his hand , and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap . As I darkened the little light he had , he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door , then ...
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