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. Being the Third Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English LanguageHudson and Goodwin, 1802 - 240 |
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Strona 8
... humanity ; let us not be the caufe of fear or pain to one another . - Let us def pife injury , malice and detraction ; and bear with an equal mind fuch tranfitory evils . While we fpeak , while we think , death comes up and closes the ...
... humanity ; let us not be the caufe of fear or pain to one another . - Let us def pife injury , malice and detraction ; and bear with an equal mind fuch tranfitory evils . While we fpeak , while we think , death comes up and closes the ...
Strona 15
... human , to forgive , divine . A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man , than this , that when the injury began on his part , the kindness Thould begin on ours . The prodigal robs his heir , the mifer robs himself . We ...
... human , to forgive , divine . A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man , than this , that when the injury began on his part , the kindness Thould begin on ours . The prodigal robs his heir , the mifer robs himself . We ...
Strona 17
... human mind with the most fively and tranfporting touches , is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite wisdom , power and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here , with happiness hereafter , large as our defires ...
... human mind with the most fively and tranfporting touches , is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite wisdom , power and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here , with happiness hereafter , large as our defires ...
Strona 20
... human nature to fancy happiness in thofe fchemes which it does not pursue . WHAT CHAP . VIII . HAT a piece of work is man ! how noble in reafon ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how ...
... human nature to fancy happiness in thofe fchemes which it does not pursue . WHAT CHAP . VIII . HAT a piece of work is man ! how noble in reafon ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how ...
Strona 23
... human life ; the chief enemy both of public happiness and private tranquility , and thought he could not lay on pofterity a ftronger obligation to reverence his mem- ory , that by leaving them a falutary caution against this out ...
... human life ; the chief enemy both of public happiness and private tranquility , and thought he could not lay on pofterity a ftronger obligation to reverence his mem- ory , that by leaving them a falutary caution against this out ...
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