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 MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 ページ |
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... those are the beft people , whofe char- acters have been moft injured by flanderers ; as we ufually find that to be the fweeteft fruit , which the birds have been picking at . The eye of a critic is often like a microscope , made fo ...
... those are the beft people , whofe char- acters have been moft injured by flanderers ; as we ufually find that to be the fweeteft fruit , which the birds have been picking at . The eye of a critic is often like a microscope , made fo ...
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... those of my good friend the vicar . The agreement being concluded , the banker ate a couple of eggs and went to his bed , enjoying that pleafing fatisfaction which none but dutiful children can feel or understand . 8. The next morning ...
... those of my good friend the vicar . The agreement being concluded , the banker ate a couple of eggs and went to his bed , enjoying that pleafing fatisfaction which none but dutiful children can feel or understand . 8. The next morning ...
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... those he loved . His parish oners caught the ardor of the good old man , even the philofo- pher felt himself moved , and forgot , for a moment , to think why he should not . 31. La Roche's religion was that of fentiment , not theory ...
... those he loved . His parish oners caught the ardor of the good old man , even the philofo- pher felt himself moved , and forgot , for a moment , to think why he should not . 31. La Roche's religion was that of fentiment , not theory ...
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... those astonishing mountains , the cliffs of which , covered with eternal fnows , and fometimes fhooting into fantastic hapes , form the termination of most of the Swifs profpects . 39. Our philofopher afked many queftions , as to their ...
... those astonishing mountains , the cliffs of which , covered with eternal fnows , and fometimes fhooting into fantastic hapes , form the termination of most of the Swifs profpects . 39. Our philofopher afked many queftions , as to their ...
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... those living waters which flow from the throne of God . It is only from a belief of the goodness and wifdom of a fupreme Being that our calamities can be borne in a manner which becomes a man . " 57. “ Human wisdom is here of little ufe ...
... those living waters which flow from the throne of God . It is only from a belief of the goodness and wifdom of a fupreme Being that our calamities can be borne in a manner which becomes a man . " 57. “ Human wisdom is here of little ufe ...
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216 ページ - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
214 ページ - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
213 ページ - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
221 ページ - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
190 ページ - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
169 ページ - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
169 ページ - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
211 ページ - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
62 ページ - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
16 ページ - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...