The Complete Letter-writer: Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life, Also a Variety of Elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, ...W Darling, 1778 - 249 ページ |
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acquaintance addrefs affectionate affure againſt agreeable almoſt anfwer beauty becauſe beft beſt bleffing buſineſs charms Cleora compliments converfation dear deferves defign defire duty efteem endeavour fafe faid fame father fatisfaction favour feem feen felves fenfe fenfible ferious ferve fhall fhort fhould fhow fifter fince fincere firft firſt fome fomething foon fpeak fpirit friends ftand fubject fuch fuffer fuppofe fure gentleman give goodneſs greateſt happineſs happy heart Heaven himſelf honour hope humble fervant huſband juft juſt lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs LETTER live lofe lover Madam mafter marriage Mifs mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf neceffary nefs never obferve obliged occafion ourſelves paffed paffion perfon pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poffible prefent racter reafon refpect tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand tion underſtanding uſed vifits virtue whofe worfe write young your's yourſelf
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248 ページ - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
156 ページ - ... effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him.
134 ページ - ... seem young, be told so by her glass, and have no aches to inform her of the truth : and when she shall appear to be mortal, may her Lord not mourn for her, but go hand in hand with her to that place where we are told there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage, that being there divorced we may all have an equal interest in her again.
201 ページ - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
223 ページ - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way.
151 ページ - The King, I trust, will deal graciously with you, restore you those honours and that fortune which a distempered time hath deprived you of, together with the life of your father...
195 ページ - ... utterly forgetful of that world from which we are gone, and ripening for that to which we are to go ! If you retain any memory of the past...
156 ページ - We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue.
155 ページ - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple and hesitation; we enter them, but enter timorous...
201 ページ - I am even as unconcerned as was that honest Hibernian, who being in bed in the great storm some years ago, and told the house would tumble over his head, made answer, " What care I for the house ? I am only a lodger.