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 Mind |
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... virtues , praise : Such is the force of ill will , and ill nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain af plause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age ; but to escape censure , a man must pass his whole ...
... virtues , praise : Such is the force of ill will , and ill nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain af plause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age ; but to escape censure , a man must pass his whole ...
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... Virtue should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or sinister meaning in dis- course , as we should puns , bad language or false grammar . The higher character a person supports , the more he should ...
... Virtue should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or sinister meaning in dis- course , as we should puns , bad language or false grammar . The higher character a person supports , the more he should ...
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... virtue in people so low ! Have you any other land but this farm ? No , replied Perrin - but you will have occasion for a tenant , and I hope you will allow me to remain here.- Your honesty deserves a better recompense , answered the ...
... virtue in people so low ! Have you any other land but this farm ? No , replied Perrin - but you will have occasion for a tenant , and I hope you will allow me to remain here.- Your honesty deserves a better recompense , answered the ...
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... virtue is Sophia's ruling passion . She loves it , because no other thing is so lovely : She loves it because it is the glory of the female sex : She loves it as the only road to happiness , misery being the sure attend- ant of a woman ...
... virtue is Sophia's ruling passion . She loves it , because no other thing is so lovely : She loves it because it is the glory of the female sex : She loves it as the only road to happiness , misery being the sure attend- ant of a woman ...
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... virtue ; they love each other on this account . They will therefore , continue to love as long as they are virtuous - and their union itself is a pledge of their perseverance - for nothing so much secures our con- tinuance in the paths ...
... virtue ; they love each other on this account . They will therefore , continue to love as long as they are virtuous - and their union itself is a pledge of their perseverance - for nothing so much secures our con- tinuance in the paths ...
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Page 207 - 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.
Page 214 - 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!
Page 216 - 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.
Page 213 - 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...
Page 79 - 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...
Page 190 - 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.
Page 153 - 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...
Page 169 - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
Page 208 - 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 !
Page 217 - 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.