Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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... least recollect something that is true . Your Essay may consist of seven distinct parts . 1st . State the proposition , or subject proposed for your theme , as clearly and intelligibly as you can , using only as many words as are ...
... least recollect something that is true . Your Essay may consist of seven distinct parts . 1st . State the proposition , or subject proposed for your theme , as clearly and intelligibly as you can , using only as many words as are ...
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... least , lose much of their force , while they are seeking for terms in which to em- body them . If you accustom yourself carefully to attend to your own common modes of expression , you will soon find it impossible to commit an error ...
... least , lose much of their force , while they are seeking for terms in which to em- body them . If you accustom yourself carefully to attend to your own common modes of expression , you will soon find it impossible to commit an error ...
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... least under the first , second , third , and seventh ; the others being given more for orna- ment and amplification , than as being essential parts of an Essay . When you revise these , take notice whether you have offended against any ...
... least under the first , second , third , and seventh ; the others being given more for orna- ment and amplification , than as being essential parts of an Essay . When you revise these , take notice whether you have offended against any ...
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... least , the advan- tage of being comprised in so small a compass , that want of leisure and inclination for this sort of reading will not prevent you from making use of them . Some of the observations contained in the fore- going pages ...
... least , the advan- tage of being comprised in so small a compass , that want of leisure and inclination for this sort of reading will not prevent you from making use of them . Some of the observations contained in the fore- going pages ...
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... least plausibly , on many topics , and , after a little practice , I have no doubt that you will accomplish with ease all that is required in a school theme , and more than is usually performed . ESSAY I. ON SUPERFICIAL ACQUIREMENTS ...
... least plausibly , on many topics , and , after a little practice , I have no doubt that you will accomplish with ease all that is required in a school theme , and more than is usually performed . ESSAY I. ON SUPERFICIAL ACQUIREMENTS ...
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Page 13 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 26 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Page 201 - God, in the nature of each being, founds Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds: But as he framed a whole, the whole to bless, On mutual wants built mutual happiness: So from the first eternal Order ran, And creature link'd to creature, man to man.
Page 167 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 127 - Open, ye everlasting gates !' they sung; ' Open, ye Heavens, your living doors ; let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days...
Page 170 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 88 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Page 147 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 218 - ... and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 20 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons: rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.