The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Prose. II. Poetick Numbers ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Verse. Being the Third Part of a Columbian Exercise ... an Easy and Systematical Method of Teaching of Learning the English LanguageJ. T. Buckingham, 1814 - Počet stran: 228 |
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Strana 15
... happiness of that which is to follow . Nor Fame I slight , nor for her favours call ; She comes unlook'd for , if she comes at all . But , if the purchase cost so dear a price , As soothing Fully , or exalting Vice ; And , if the Muse ...
... happiness of that which is to follow . Nor Fame I slight , nor for her favours call ; She comes unlook'd for , if she comes at all . But , if the purchase cost so dear a price , As soothing Fully , or exalting Vice ; And , if the Muse ...
Strana 20
... happiness . To abuse the poor for his poverty , is to insult God's providence . He whose ruling passion is love of praise , is a slave to every one who has a tongue for detraction . II . Blame not before thou hast examined the truth ...
... happiness . To abuse the poor for his poverty , is to insult God's providence . He whose ruling passion is love of praise , is a slave to every one who has a tongue for detraction . II . Blame not before thou hast examined the truth ...
Strana 25
... happiness . II . Favours are not always gratefully returned ; the sun that melts the wax , hardens the clay . Soft persuasion will oftener draw , than rough measures will drive , the mind to conviction . There is an elastick quality in ...
... happiness . II . Favours are not always gratefully returned ; the sun that melts the wax , hardens the clay . Soft persuasion will oftener draw , than rough measures will drive , the mind to conviction . There is an elastick quality in ...
Strana 36
... it will please itself with very mean advantages ; and envy feels not its own happiness , but when it may be compared with the miseries of others . Peevishness , though it sometimes arises from old age , 36 THE READER . LESSON XLII. ...
... it will please itself with very mean advantages ; and envy feels not its own happiness , but when it may be compared with the miseries of others . Peevishness , though it sometimes arises from old age , 36 THE READER . LESSON XLII. ...
Strana 38
... happier than men 790 But human felicity is lodged in the soul , not in the flesh . LESSON XLVII . MANY people have sense enough to keep their own ecrets ; but from being unused to company , have unfor- unately such a tell - tale ...
... happier than men 790 But human felicity is lodged in the soul , not in the flesh . LESSON XLVII . MANY people have sense enough to keep their own ecrets ; but from being unused to company , have unfor- unately such a tell - tale ...
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