...stepping into the middle of the room, making his bow, and reciting, with much force and fluency,— " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." Ulysses was nine or ten years of age when his father invited a nephew in Canada to a home in his family,...

...stepping into the middle of the room, making his bow, and reciting, with much force and fluency,—- " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." Ulysses was nine or ten years of age when his father invited a nephew in Canada to a home in his family,...

...occupy their attention, if, indeed, I am able to do so at all. I might also plead the old rhyme : ' You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage,' " The contrast between the day of small things when fifteen young men associated themselves to form...

...non-participating scholars. The exercises began. A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited, "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage, etc."—accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might...

...with nonparticipating scholars. The exercises began. A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited 'You'd scarce expect one of my age, to speak in public on the stage,' etc., accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have...

...has employed me for some time. I hope Mr. Edwards will be indulgent enough to listen to its request. "Don't view me with a critic's eye. But pass my imperfections by.—" Now to my Latin which I like better than anything else; and which will, I know be still more interesting...

...in, 128-29, 131See also Calvinism; Congregationalism; Orthodoxy Evarts, }eremiah, 23 Everett, David: "Lines Spoken at a School-exhibition, by a Little Boy Seven Years Old," 13 Everett, Edward, 48, 55, 130, 141, 152 "Experimental Religion," 66, 77, 109, 135 Federalism, 26,...

...Competitive Ethics 409: 11—18 Oh where's the town ... great in good These are the final lines of “Lines Spoken at a School-Exhibition, By a Little Boy Seven Years Old” by David Everett (1770—1813), an American poet and lawyer. In the original the last line reads: “But...

...read, she taught me how to speak it, and I have never forgotten it. It was as follows: “Who could expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage,...critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. Although I am but small and...

..."Casabianica" in the regular drawl of a school boy speaking his piece; from that he branched off to 'You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage." His rendering of the elaborate poem was irresistible when taken in connection with his gestures and...