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 MindPublished and sold by David Hogan, 1809 - 230 páginas |
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... soon blasted by rashness and negligence ; and great designs , which are defeated by experience . In age . we have knowledge and prudence , without spirit to exert , or motives to prompt them . We are able to plan schemes and regulate ...
... soon blasted by rashness and negligence ; and great designs , which are defeated by experience . In age . we have knowledge and prudence , without spirit to exert , or motives to prompt them . We are able to plan schemes and regulate ...
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... soon . Whilst 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 same degree that they are re- sentful . Young men are subtle arguers ; the ...
... soon . Whilst 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 same degree that they are re- sentful . Young men are subtle arguers ; the ...
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... soon distinguished and fixed upon her . 2. But recovering from the short ecstacy occasioned by the first sight , he immediately reproached himself as be- ing guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company ; a fault which he had ...
... soon distinguished and fixed upon her . 2. But recovering from the short ecstacy occasioned by the first sight , he immediately reproached himself as be- ing guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company ; a fault which he had ...
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... soon dislike a coquet , a fool , or a gid- dy woman : But if he falls in love with a woman of mer- it , time , far from weakening , will only strengthen and aug- ment his passion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocks convinced him now ...
... soon dislike a coquet , a fool , or a gid- dy woman : But if he falls in love with a woman of mer- it , time , far from weakening , will only strengthen and aug- ment his passion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocks convinced him now ...
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... soon after , prescribed a little , and nature did much for him ; in a week he was able to thank his benefactor . 11. By that time his host had learned the name and character of his guest . He was a protestant and clergy- man of ...
... soon after , prescribed a little , and nature did much for him ; in a week he was able to thank his benefactor . 11. By that time his host had learned the name and character of his guest . He was a protestant and clergy- man of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Agathocles beautiful Belfield Bevil blessing Blithe blood Brutus Cairo Caius Verres Cassius Cecilia character cheerfulness citizens Columbus Crom Cromwell cubits daugh daughter dear death decemvirs Delv Delvill Eggleston enemies Eryx eyes fall father favor fear feel feet fortune Gent give glory ground hand happy heart heaven honor hope human hundred Hunks Indian king Lady Lady Hon live look Lord LUMBUS Madam mankind manner marriage married mean mind Miss Beverly Miss Wal Miss Walsingham morning nature never noble o'er passion patricians peace person pleasure plebian praise prince rendered rise Roche Roman savage scene Servius Tullius Sicily soon soul Spain Syph Syphax tears thee thing thou thought thousand tion Torrington treaty truth vex'd virtue whole woman young
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Página 207 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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 ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
Página 79 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Página 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.
Página 153 - Italy, bind, scourge, torture with fire and red hot plates of iron, and at last put to the infamous death of the cross, a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman commonwealth, nor the...
Página 169 - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
Página 208 - Long in his highness' favor, and do justice For truth's sake, and his conscience ; that his bones, When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
Página 217 - When that rash humor, which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful ? Bru. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.