The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining: abridged from the larger volume: intended to assist in introducing scholars at classical and other schools, to an acquaintance with useful and ornamental knowledge..Messrs. Rivingtons, Longman, 1792 - 456 páginas |
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... young Student So Evening Prayer -- 81 The LORD'S PRAYER 1 B Eneficial Effects of a Taste for the - 2 Effects of the Cultivation of Tafte Belles Letters 3 Improvement of Tafte 4 On Style 5- Perfpicuity 6- Purity and Propriety 109 110 7 ...
... young Student So Evening Prayer -- 81 The LORD'S PRAYER 1 B Eneficial Effects of a Taste for the - 2 Effects of the Cultivation of Tafte Belles Letters 3 Improvement of Tafte 4 On Style 5- Perfpicuity 6- Purity and Propriety 109 110 7 ...
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... young flirts , that I paffed most of place in your nine - and - twentieth year , what my laft years in condemning the follies of the have you been doing all this while ? I had a times ; I was every day blaming the filly con- great deal ...
... young flirts , that I paffed most of place in your nine - and - twentieth year , what my laft years in condemning the follies of the have you been doing all this while ? I had a times ; I was every day blaming the filly con- great deal ...
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... young woman obferving that this officer , who conducted the happy to Elyfium , was fo great a beautifier , longed to be in his hands ; fo that preffing through the crowd , fhe was the next that ap- peared at the bar . And being afked ...
... young woman obferving that this officer , who conducted the happy to Elyfium , was fo great a beautifier , longed to be in his hands ; fo that preffing through the crowd , fhe was the next that ap- peared at the bar . And being afked ...
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... young , it will give us no fhade when we grow old . I neither require nor expect from you great application to books , after you are once thrown out into the great world . I know it is impoffible ; and it may even , in fome cafes , be ...
... young , it will give us no fhade when we grow old . I neither require nor expect from you great application to books , after you are once thrown out into the great world . I know it is impoffible ; and it may even , in fome cafes , be ...
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... young .--- And yet , my friends , to what do the constraints of reli- gion , and the counfels of age , with refpect to picafure , amount ? They may all be com- prized in a few words --- not to hurt your- of pleafure . Within these ...
... young .--- And yet , my friends , to what do the constraints of reli- gion , and the counfels of age , with refpect to picafure , amount ? They may all be com- prized in a few words --- not to hurt your- of pleafure . Within these ...
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Página 3 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Página 1 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and, taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Página 70 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Página 249 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Página 36 - Every blessing we enjoy, by what means soever it may be derived upon us, is the gift of Him who is the great Author of Good, and Father of Mercies.
Página 365 - A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think 'Tis day, and will never be night...
Página 1 - I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was...
Página 36 - It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command .which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification that accompanies it.
Página 1 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Página 338 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...