... that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse, a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2091824Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 220 pages
...of generals haranguing whole armies, of which I had sometimes doubted. By hearing him often, I could distinguish easily between sermons newly composed...delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetitions that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 338 pages
...histories of generals haranguing whole armies, of which I had sometimes doubted. By hearing him often, I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly composed,...in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter'was so improved by frequent repetitions that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...often, I could distinguish easily between sermons newly compos'd, and those which he had often preach'd in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter was so improv'd by frequent repetitions that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 432 pages
...me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to twentyfive thousand. By hearing him often, I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly composed...travels. His delivery of the latter was so improved \>y frequent repetition that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 pages
...armies, of which I had sometimes doubted. By hearing him often I came to distinguish easily betv.'een sermons newly composed and those which he had often...course of his travels. His delivery of the latter wiis so improved by frequent repetition that every accent, every em phasis, every modulation of voice,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 pages
...histories of generals haranguing whole armies, of which I had sometimes doubted. >, By hearing him often, I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly composed,...delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetitions that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice was so perfectly well turned... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 pages
...I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly compos'd, and those which he had often preach'd in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter was so improv'd by frequent repetitions that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was... | |
| Sir James Stephen - 1907 - 344 pages
...distinguish between sermons newly composed and those he had preached often in the course of his travek His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent...every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of the voice was so perfectly timed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...histories of generals haranguing whole armies, of which I had sometimes doubted. By hearing him often, I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly composed, and those which he 1 Court-house is shown in picture on p. 35. had often preached in the course of his travels. His delivery... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 pages
...histories of generals haranguing whole armies, of which I had sometimes doubted. By hearing him often, I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly composed,...delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetitions that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice was so perfectly well turned... | |
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