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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... foon blafted by rafhnefs and negligence ; and great defigns , which are defeated by experience . In age , we have knowl- edge and prudence , without fpirit to exert , or motives to prompt them . We are able to plan schemes and regulate ...
... foon blafted by rafhnefs and negligence ; and great defigns , which are defeated by experience . In age , we have knowl- edge and prudence , without fpirit to exert , or motives to prompt them . We are able to plan schemes and regulate ...
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... foon Whilft an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by the worst performance ; when he is dead , we rate them by his best . Men are grateful , in the fame degree that they are refentful . Young men are fubtle arguers ; the ...
... foon Whilft an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by the worst performance ; when he is dead , we rate them by his best . Men are grateful , in the fame degree that they are refentful . Young men are fubtle arguers ; the ...
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... foon as he was fettled , he mounted on horfeback , and went alone to the village . It was ten at night before he got there ; and the honeft cobler was in bed with his wife , in a found fleep , when he knocked at the door . Open the door ...
... foon as he was fettled , he mounted on horfeback , and went alone to the village . It was ten at night before he got there ; and the honeft cobler was in bed with his wife , in a found fleep , when he knocked at the door . Open the door ...
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... foon diftinguished and fixed upon her . 2. But recovering from the fhort ecftacy occafioned by the first fight , he immediately reproached himself , as being guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company ; a fault which he had ...
... foon diftinguished and fixed upon her . 2. But recovering from the fhort ecftacy occafioned by the first fight , he immediately reproached himself , as being guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company ; a fault which he had ...
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... foon diflike 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 ftrengthen and augment his paffion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocles convinced him , now ...
... foon diflike 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 ftrengthen and augment his paffion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocles convinced him , now ...
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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 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 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...
Page 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
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 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Page 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Page 62 - 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. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...