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... nature of what affects the organs of hearing ; the quality of the transmission of sound in a room . The acoustic properties of this assembly hall are cellent . Public speakers often complain of the acoustics of the halls in which they ...
... nature of what affects the organs of hearing ; the quality of the transmission of sound in a room . The acoustic properties of this assembly hall are cellent . Public speakers often complain of the acoustics of the halls in which they ...
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... natural place ; incidental ; extrinsic ; fortuitous . It was an adventitious prestige . The occurrence was only adventitious . LESSON FOUR . Mend your speech a little , lest 14 Purdon's Vocabulary of Words Constantly Needed.
... natural place ; incidental ; extrinsic ; fortuitous . It was an adventitious prestige . The occurrence was only adventitious . LESSON FOUR . Mend your speech a little , lest 14 Purdon's Vocabulary of Words Constantly Needed.
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... Nature is ambidextrous . We encountered ambidextrous dealings . ambiguous ( ăm - bĭg ' - ū - us ) , adj . Doubtful ; uncertain ; capable of being interpreted several ways ; having a double meaning . The ambiguous nature of his speech ...
... Nature is ambidextrous . We encountered ambidextrous dealings . ambiguous ( ăm - bĭg ' - ū - us ) , adj . Doubtful ; uncertain ; capable of being interpreted several ways ; having a double meaning . The ambiguous nature of his speech ...
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... Nature is always amenable to reason . They were amenable to his persuasive suggestions . She is amenable to instruction , which others are not . amenity ( à - měn ' - i - ti ) , n . Civility ; state of being agreeable or pleasant ...
... Nature is always amenable to reason . They were amenable to his persuasive suggestions . She is amenable to instruction , which others are not . amenity ( à - měn ' - i - ti ) , n . Civility ; state of being agreeable or pleasant ...
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... natures ; suited to land and water . The crocodile , the seal and the frog are all amphibious . In the summer , Hawaiians lead an almost amphibious existence . amphibolous ( ăm - fib ' - ō - lūs ) , adj . Of two meanings ; equivocal ...
... natures ; suited to land and water . The crocodile , the seal and the frog are all amphibious . In the summer , Hawaiians lead an almost amphibious existence . amphibolous ( ăm - fib ' - ō - lūs ) , adj . Of two meanings ; equivocal ...
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Page 295 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! " OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, The Chambered Nautilus.
Page 71 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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Page 263 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Page 64 - ... has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come...
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Page 94 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
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Page 142 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 287 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.