The Scots Magazine, Volume 23

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Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1751 - English literature
 

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Page 283 - Be courteous of gesture, and affable to all men, with diversity of reverence, according to the dignity of the person. There is nothing that winneth so much, with so little cost.
Page 283 - Apply your study to such hours as your discreet master doth assign you, earnestly ; and the time I know he will so limit as shall be both sufficient for your learning and safe for your health. And mark the sense and the matter of that you read, as well as the words.
Page 294 - ... it : it is feldom of any fervice to the giver, becaufe it more frequently makes him an enemy, than a friend ; and as feldom to the receiver, becaufe, if he is not wife enough to act properly without it, he will fcarcely be wife enough to diftinguifh that which is good.
Page 284 - Use exercise of body, but such as is without peril of your joints or bones. It will increase your force, and enlarge your breath, Delight to be cleanly, as well in all parts of your body, as in your garments. It shall make you grateful in each company, and otherwise loathsome.
Page 283 - I have received two letters from you, one written in Latin, the other in French ; which I take in good part, and will you to exercise that practice of learning often : for that will stand you in most stead, in that profession of life that you are born to live in. And...
Page 496 - Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, in proper Mantles, their Hats in their Hands, representing the Dukes of Aquitaine, Normandy, Sir William Breton.
Page 284 - Above all things, tell no untruth, no not in trifles. The custom of it is naught. And let it not satisfy you, that the hearers, for a time, take it for a truth ; for afterwards it will be known as it is to your shame ; and there cannot be a greater reproach to a gentleman than to be accounted a liar.
Page 518 - Abbey echoed with the repeated shouts and acclamations of the people. The peers, who before this time had their coronets in their hands, now put them on, as the...
Page 298 - Majesty to put on a hypocritical shew of religion as Henry the Third of France did, hoping thereby to have weathered the storms of those times. No ! that would be soon seen through, and as it would provoke God more, so it would increase jealousies.
Page 284 - Think upon every word that you will speak, before you utter it, and remember how nature hath rampired up (as it were) the tongue with teeth, lips, yea, and hair without the lips, and all betokening reins, or bridles, for the loose use of that member.

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