The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant: Being a Collection of Select Pieces from Our Best Modern Writers ... Divided Into Small Portions for the Ease of Reading in ClassesA. Forman, 1806 - 374 pages |
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... thoughts with proper expres- sions , and conveying our ideas , either in writing or speak- ing , agreeably , cannot fail of making an impression upon the hearer or reader . For a man's knowledge is of little use to the world , when he ...
... thoughts with proper expres- sions , and conveying our ideas , either in writing or speak- ing , agreeably , cannot fail of making an impression upon the hearer or reader . For a man's knowledge is of little use to the world , when he ...
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... thought which are peculiar to his writings . 2. I often consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former . Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in gen- eral , we are ...
... thought which are peculiar to his writings . 2. I often consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former . Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in gen- eral , we are ...
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... thoughts and passions are the most busied at such hours when those of other men are the most inactive ; he no sooner steps out of the world , but his heart burns with devotion , swells with hope , and triumphs in the con- sciousness of ...
... thoughts and passions are the most busied at such hours when those of other men are the most inactive ; he no sooner steps out of the world , but his heart burns with devotion , swells with hope , and triumphs in the con- sciousness of ...
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... thought , I diverted myself with a book , accord- ing to my usual custom , in order to unbend my mind be . fore I went to sleep . The book I made use of on this occasion was Lucian , where I amused my thoughts for about an hour among ...
... thought , I diverted myself with a book , accord- ing to my usual custom , in order to unbend my mind be . fore I went to sleep . The book I made use of on this occasion was Lucian , where I amused my thoughts for about an hour among ...
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... thought , for every scandal that ran round the beautiful . circle . 9. As I was going home to bed that evening , I could not help thinking of her all the way I went . Lrepresented herto myself as shedding holy blood every time she blush ...
... thought , for every scandal that ran round the beautiful . circle . 9. As I was going home to bed that evening , I could not help thinking of her all the way I went . Lrepresented herto myself as shedding holy blood every time she blush ...
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acquaintance action admiration affectation agreeable appear Aristotle arms attention aukward beauty behaviour blessed body book of Chronicles book of Kings Caelia Caliphs character cheerfulness Columbus consider conversation Cornelius Nepos countenance creatures CURINO dæmon death delight desire divine endeavour esteem eternity express eyes father favour fear frequently friendship gentleman give glory good-breeding grace hand happy heart heaven Helim Hispaniola holy honour hope human humour imagination infinite Jews kind king labour ladies laugh learning live look Lord mankind manner matter means mind modesty moral nature neral ness never observe occasion pain pass passions Patricians perfection person pleasing pleasure praise proper Pulcheria Quintillian raptures reason Rhadamanthus Rome says secret sense shew smile soul speak species spirit suffer tell temper tence thee thing thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue voice Volsci whole words young youth
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Page 9 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad : for who is able to judge this, thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
Page 372 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 352 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Page 353 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 371 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 360 - As through unquiet rest: he, on his side Leaning, half raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whisper'd thus: ' Awake My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight! Awake...
Page 113 - The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.
Page 361 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden (till one greater Man Restore us and regain the blissful seat!), Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 198 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Page 64 - I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a...