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 MindPublished and sold by David Hogan, 1809 - 230 ページ |
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... happiness . In youth , we have warm hopes , which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence ; and great designs , which are defeated by experience . In age . we have knowledge and prudence , without spirit to exert , or motives to ...
... happiness . In youth , we have warm hopes , which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence ; and great designs , which are defeated by experience . In age . we have knowledge and prudence , without spirit to exert , or motives to ...
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... happiness hereafter , large as our desires , and lasting as our immortal souls ; without this the highest state of life is insipid , and with it , the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . V. HONORABLE age is not that which standeth in length ...
... happiness hereafter , large as our desires , and lasting as our immortal souls ; without this the highest state of life is insipid , and with it , the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . V. HONORABLE age is not that which standeth in length ...
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... happiness , misery being the sure attend- ant of a woman without virtue . She loves it , as dear to her respectable father and tender mother . These sentiments inspire her with a degree of enthusiasm , that elevates her soul , and ...
... happiness , misery being the sure attend- ant of a woman without virtue . She loves it , as dear to her respectable father and tender mother . These sentiments inspire her with a degree of enthusiasm , that elevates her soul , and ...
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... happiness for which he sighed was no longer delayed than was necessary to pre- are the ceremony . 11. The marriage settlements were easily regulated vixt the parties ; for interest was out of the question : The chief article consisted ...
... happiness for which he sighed was no longer delayed than was necessary to pre- are the ceremony . 11. The marriage settlements were easily regulated vixt the parties ; for interest was out of the question : The chief article consisted ...
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... happiness , but those disasters and misfortunes from which their love cannot shelter them . But supposing such a reverse of for- tune , would not their fate in this respect be common with that of the rest of mankind ? Those who have ...
... happiness , but those disasters and misfortunes from which their love cannot shelter them . But supposing such a reverse of for- tune , would not their fate in this respect be common with that of the rest of mankind ? Those who have ...
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207 ページ - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
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!
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.
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 ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
79 ページ - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
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.
153 ページ - Italy, bind, scourge, torture with fire and red hot plates of iron, and at last put to the infamous death of the cross, a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman commonwealth, nor the...
169 ページ - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
208 ページ - Long in his highness' favor, and do justice For truth's sake, and his conscience ; that his bones, When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
217 ページ - When that rash humor, which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful ? Bru. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.