Five Lessons for Young MenAlfred Southwick, 1837 - Počet stran: 198 |
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Strana 46
... equally dear to just men , to pay their honest debts ; and this distress , and this suffering are to be relieved- how ? By investing the little money they have left in such a manner as to get more , towards the payment of their honest ...
... equally dear to just men , to pay their honest debts ; and this distress , and this suffering are to be relieved- how ? By investing the little money they have left in such a manner as to get more , towards the payment of their honest ...
Strana 55
... equally nugatory , if it be really intended to show off vice in a manner that shall make vice odious ; for vice meets vice ; box , pit and gallery are full of it ; and so far from being disgusted with the vice ostensibly exhibited for ...
... equally nugatory , if it be really intended to show off vice in a manner that shall make vice odious ; for vice meets vice ; box , pit and gallery are full of it ; and so far from being disgusted with the vice ostensibly exhibited for ...
Strana 68
... equally ruinous to society . If then we wish to allure strangers to trade or settle among us , let us have nobler motives to urge , than that of affording them fa- cilities to commit sin ! Let us urge upon them , that Albany being near ...
... equally ruinous to society . If then we wish to allure strangers to trade or settle among us , let us have nobler motives to urge , than that of affording them fa- cilities to commit sin ! Let us urge upon them , that Albany being near ...
Strana 73
... equally certain are we , that if the young men of the present age could all at once , by inspiration , or any other means , become pos- sessed of the same experience which we have had in the courses against which we are now warn- ing ...
... equally certain are we , that if the young men of the present age could all at once , by inspiration , or any other means , become pos- sessed of the same experience which we have had in the courses against which we are now warn- ing ...
Strana 78
... equally unfit and unworthy to be received into good company , he becomes what is called a " loafer ; " lives thenceforward in despondency and wretchedness ; and finally dies in despair of the divine mercy ; and thus the comparison be ...
... equally unfit and unworthy to be received into good company , he becomes what is called a " loafer ; " lives thenceforward in despondency and wretchedness ; and finally dies in despair of the divine mercy ; and thus the comparison be ...
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Strana 26 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (and that there is all Nature cries aloud through all her works,) he must delight in virtue; and that which he delights in must be happy.
Strana 28 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age. and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
Strana 164 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Strana 27 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Strana 16 - My name is Norval ! on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks : a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
Strana 119 - Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will...
Strana 35 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Strana 119 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Strana 86 - How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid...
Strana 196 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.