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. Being the Third Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language |
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... virtue itself has its flated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to revenge it afterwards . No It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly ...
... virtue itself has its flated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to revenge it afterwards . No It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly ...
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... virtues praife . Such is the force of ill will and ill nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to ef cape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole life ...
... virtues praife . Such is the force of ill will and ill nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to ef cape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole life ...
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... Virtue should be confidered as a part of tafte ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or finifter meaning in difcourfe , as we fhould puns , bad language or falfe grammar , The higher character a perfon fupports , the more he should ...
... Virtue should be confidered as a part of tafte ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or finifter meaning in difcourfe , as we fhould puns , bad language or falfe grammar , The higher character a perfon fupports , the more he should ...
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... virtues we write in water . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill tes gether ; our virtues would be ... virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The ...
... virtues we write in water . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill tes gether ; our virtues would be ... virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The ...
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... virtue is Sophia's ruling paffion . She loves it , bec ufe no other thing is fo lovely : She loves it , because it is the glory of the female fex : She loves it as the only road to happinefs , mifery being the fure attendant of a woman ...
... virtue is Sophia's ruling paffion . She loves it , bec ufe no other thing is fo lovely : She loves it , because it is the glory of the female fex : She loves it as the only road to happinefs , mifery being the fure attendant of a woman ...
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Agathocles American army becauſe bleffings Blithe British Caius Verres caufe Columbus command confequences confider confiderable converfation daugh daughter death defign defire Delvill difcovered eafy enemy expreffed eyes faid fame father fatire favage fave fecure feemed feen felf fenfe fent fervice feven feveral fhall fhort fhould firft fituation fmall fociety fome fometimes foon foul fpeak ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffered fure Great-Britain hand happineſs happy heart himſelf honor houfe houſe Hunks Indians intereft itfelf juft juftice Lady laft leaft lefs lofs loft Lord Cornwallis Madam marriage meaſures Mifs Wal mind moft moſt muft myfelf neceffary never obferved occafion paffed paffions Patricians perfon philofopher pleafed pleaſure poffible prefent preferve prifoner propofed reafon refpect ſhall Syphax thee thefe themfelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand troops uſe virtue voice weft whofe worfe yourſelf
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Page 10 - If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe If I forgive him ! Bass.
Page 180 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What ! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 177 - 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 forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Page 179 - 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...
Page 65 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace.
Page 196 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Page 226 - ... in every occurrence, and in every thought. If we look into the characters of this tribe of infidels, we generally find they are made up of pride, spleen, and cavil.
Page 16 - Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he have done it, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it: and if he have, that he speak it not again. Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.
Page 142 - Administration, sensible that we should regard these oppressive measures as freemen ought to do, sent over fleets and armies to enforce them. The indignation of the Americans was roused, it is true ; but it was the indignation of a virtuous, loyal, and affectionate people.
Page 182 - Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is aweary of the world...