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 19
... virtues ; and more frequently crushed by it , than by his vices . To labour and to be content with what a man hath , is ... virtue ; and are not so much good men as the friends of goodness . Endeavour to be first in your profession , and ...
... virtues ; and more frequently crushed by it , than by his vices . To labour and to be content with what a man hath , is ... virtue ; and are not so much good men as the friends of goodness . Endeavour to be first in your profession , and ...
Strana 23
... virtue . LESSON XIV . . AN ambitious man is the greatest enemy to himself of any in the world besides ; he is continually tormented in the disappointment of his own unreasonable desires . Avarice and ambition are the two elements that ...
... virtue . LESSON XIV . . AN ambitious man is the greatest enemy to himself of any in the world besides ; he is continually tormented in the disappointment of his own unreasonable desires . Avarice and ambition are the two elements that ...
Strana 24
... at with a pistol . LESSON XVIII . SENECA observes well , That it is the constant fault , and inseparable ill quality of ambition , never to look be- hind it . Emulation , when founded on virtue , and limited to 24 THE READER .
... at with a pistol . LESSON XVIII . SENECA observes well , That it is the constant fault , and inseparable ill quality of ambition , never to look be- hind it . Emulation , when founded on virtue , and limited to 24 THE READER .
Strana 25
... virtue , and limited to her bounds , will perform deeds that will be praised in heaven . Death can never prematurely happen to a good man : whenever it takes place , it is the close of his sufferings , the commencement of his happiness ...
... virtue , and limited to her bounds , will perform deeds that will be praised in heaven . Death can never prematurely happen to a good man : whenever it takes place , it is the close of his sufferings , the commencement of his happiness ...
Strana 26
... virtues , praise : Such is the force of ill will and ill nature . Virtue should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or , sinister meanings in dis course , as we would puns , bad language , or false ...
... virtues , praise : Such is the force of ill will and ill nature . Virtue should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or , sinister meanings in dis course , as we would puns , bad language , or false ...
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