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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... honour is " the noble mind's distinguishing perfec tion : " False honour is a figure on a barn door , to be shot at with a pistol . LESSON XVIII . SENECA observes well , That it is the constant fault , and inseparable ill quality of ...
... honour is " the noble mind's distinguishing perfec tion : " False honour is a figure on a barn door , to be shot at with a pistol . LESSON XVIII . SENECA observes well , That it is the constant fault , and inseparable ill quality of ...
Strana 37
... honour , friend- ship , and virtue . Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happi- ness . He that is already corrupt , is naturally suspicious ; and he that becomes suspicious , will quickly be corrupt . A man that breaks his ...
... honour , friend- ship , and virtue . Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happi- ness . He that is already corrupt , is naturally suspicious ; and he that becomes suspicious , will quickly be corrupt . A man that breaks his ...
Strana 50
... honour , as it is graceful and or- namental to human nature . The religious man fears , the man of honour fcorns , to do an ill action . The latter confiders vice as fomething that is beneath him ; the for- mer , as fomething that is ...
... honour , as it is graceful and or- namental to human nature . The religious man fears , the man of honour fcorns , to do an ill action . The latter confiders vice as fomething that is beneath him ; the for- mer , as fomething that is ...
Strana 62
... honours of a table gracefully , is one of the outlines of a well - bred man ; and to carve well , is an article , little as it may seem , that is useful twice every day , and the doing of which ill is not only troublesome to one's self ...
... honours of a table gracefully , is one of the outlines of a well - bred man ; and to carve well , is an article , little as it may seem , that is useful twice every day , and the doing of which ill is not only troublesome to one's self ...
Strana 76
... honour of the commonwealth , that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality . Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in , made signs to him , that they would ...
... honour of the commonwealth , that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality . Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in , made signs to him , that they would ...
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