An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Mind and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which is Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind |
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Page 17
... 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 prompt them . We are able to plan schemes and regulate ...
... 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 prompt them . We are able to plan schemes and regulate ...
Page 19
... soon . 9. Whilst an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by the worst performance ; when he is dead , we rate them by his best . 10. Men are grateful , in the same degree that they are resentful , 11. Young men are subtle ...
... soon . 9. Whilst an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by the worst performance ; when he is dead , we rate them by his best . 10. Men are grateful , in the same degree that they are resentful , 11. Young men are subtle ...
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... soon as he was settled , he mounted on horseback and went alone to the village . It was ten at night before he got there ; and the honest cobbler was in bed with his wife , in a sound sleep , when he knocked at the door . Open the door ...
... soon as he was settled , he mounted on horseback and went alone to the village . It was ten at night before he got there ; and the honest cobbler was in bed with his wife , in a sound sleep , when he knocked at the door . Open the door ...
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... soon distinguished and fixed upon her . 2. But recovering from the short ecstacy occasioned by the first sight , he immediately reproached himself , as being guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company ; a fault which he endeavoured ...
... soon distinguished and fixed upon her . 2. But recovering from the short ecstacy occasioned by the first sight , he immediately reproached himself , as being guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company ; a fault which he endeavoured ...
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... soon dislike a coquet , a fool or a giddy woman ; but if he falls in love with a woman of merit , time , far from weakening , will only strengthen and augment his pas- sion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocles convinced him , now ...
... soon dislike a coquet , a fool or a giddy woman ; but if he falls in love with a woman of merit , time , far from weakening , will only strengthen and augment his pas- sion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocles convinced him , now ...
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