The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1823 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 96
Page 6
... perhaps , of all his tragedies . His " Lettres Philosophiques , " abounding in bold expressions and indecent writicisms against religion , having been burnt by a de- cree of the Parliament of Paris , and a warrant being issued for ...
... perhaps , of all his tragedies . His " Lettres Philosophiques , " abounding in bold expressions and indecent writicisms against religion , having been burnt by a de- cree of the Parliament of Paris , and a warrant being issued for ...
Page 12
... perhaps in those of all voluminous writers , a very strange mix- ture of good , bad , and indifferent . Whether many of them will long survive his living reputation , may be doubted . Of late , we understand , that few of his separate ...
... perhaps in those of all voluminous writers , a very strange mix- ture of good , bad , and indifferent . Whether many of them will long survive his living reputation , may be doubted . Of late , we understand , that few of his separate ...
Page 13
... perhaps you may be curious to know , which wakens me regularly at that hour . Exactly over my head I have suspended two vessels of tin , one above the other - when I go to bed , which is always at ten , I put a bottle of wa ter into the ...
... perhaps you may be curious to know , which wakens me regularly at that hour . Exactly over my head I have suspended two vessels of tin , one above the other - when I go to bed , which is always at ten , I put a bottle of wa ter into the ...
Page 15
... perhaps , than in other situations ; and at least , if pub- lic schools furnish the bane of morals , in them too the most pow- erful antidotes may be found . I shall give the result of my own experience and observation without disguise ...
... perhaps , than in other situations ; and at least , if pub- lic schools furnish the bane of morals , in them too the most pow- erful antidotes may be found . I shall give the result of my own experience and observation without disguise ...
Page 16
... perhaps still more rare , that where the manners of a school are generally corrupt , a single youth , whatever may be his disposition and habits , can wholly escape the contagion . An arch - fiend may sometimes seduce a number of ...
... perhaps still more rare , that where the manners of a school are generally corrupt , a single youth , whatever may be his disposition and habits , can wholly escape the contagion . An arch - fiend may sometimes seduce a number of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
academy Achæus advantage amusement ancient appeared Arian beauty called character conduct Council Council of Ancients death delight Edward Burke engaged England English equal excited exertion eyes father favour feeling France French friends gentlemen give grammar hand Hayley heart honour hope John Kemble Kemble king labour lady language Latin language learning literary Lord lord Byron Louis XV Madame Madame Campan manner master means ment mind Napoleon nature never night Norlis object observed occasion officers opinion parents person pleasure poet Port Folio possess present profession pupils queen racter reader respect river Roger Ducos Royal Saint Cloud seemed society soon Sosibius Spain spirit student supposed talents taste teacher thee thing thou thought tion verses virtue Voltaire whole wish writer young youth
Popular passages
Page 476 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 472 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried : the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Page 448 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Page 472 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Page 475 - And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves and reproach her not. And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her and leave them, that she may glean them and rebuke her not.
Page 388 - And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the Lord's anointed.
Page 52 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 474 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband ; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 472 - Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law. 15 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God...
Page 498 - But if fond love thy heart can gain, I never broke a vow ; Nae maiden lays her skaith to me, I never loved but you. For you alone I ride the ring, For you I wear the blue ; For you alone I strive to sing, O tell me how to woo ! Then tell me how to woo thee, Love ; O tell me how to woo thee ! For thy dear sake, nae care I'll take, Tho ne'er another trow me.