An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindSeward and Williams, 1813 - 226 pages |
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Page 54
... plebians , provided they would deliver up to him six of their principal citizens , with halters about their necks , as victims of due atonement for that spirit of rebellion with which they had inflamed the common people . 9. All the ...
... plebians , provided they would deliver up to him six of their principal citizens , with halters about their necks , as victims of due atonement for that spirit of rebellion with which they had inflamed the common people . 9. All the ...
Page 157
... Plebians may be admitted in- to the Consulship ; and that the Law prohibiting Patri- cians and Plebians from intermarrying , may be repealed . WHAT an insult upon us is this ! If we are not so rich as the Patricians , are we not ...
... Plebians may be admitted in- to the Consulship ; and that the Law prohibiting Patri- cians and Plebians from intermarrying , may be repealed . WHAT an insult upon us is this ! If we are not so rich as the Patricians , are we not ...
Page 158
... plebian should have their tal- ent and merit , must not he be suffered to govern us ? 7. But , " we find upon the ... plebians , is not that a new thing ? Was there any such law before the decimvirs enacted it ? And a most shameful one ...
... plebian should have their tal- ent and merit , must not he be suffered to govern us ? 7. But , " we find upon the ... plebians , is not that a new thing ? Was there any such law before the decimvirs enacted it ? And a most shameful one ...
Page 159
... plebian will do violence to the daughter of a patri- cian . Those are exploits for our prime nobles . 1 10. There is no need to fear that we shall force any body into a contract of marriage . But to make an express law to prohibit ...
... plebian will do violence to the daughter of a patri- cian . Those are exploits for our prime nobles . 1 10. There is no need to fear that we shall force any body into a contract of marriage . But to make an express law to prohibit ...
Page 164
... plebian . 11. So true is this , my countrymen , that I have myself known those who have been chosen consuls , begin then to read the history of their own country , of which , till that time , they were totally ignorant ; that is , they ...
... plebian . 11. So true is this , my countrymen , that I have myself known those who have been chosen consuls , begin then to read the history of their own country , of which , till that time , they were totally ignorant ; that is , they ...
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