Five Lessons for Young MenAlfred Southwick, 1837 - Počet stran: 198 |
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Strana 44
... ruin . 6 I will barely add , that Nimrod is rather an unfortunate signature for your correspondent on this occasion , as he is supposed by some of the ablest biblical commentators , to be the same personage , who , for his vices , was ...
... ruin . 6 I will barely add , that Nimrod is rather an unfortunate signature for your correspondent on this occasion , as he is supposed by some of the ablest biblical commentators , to be the same personage , who , for his vices , was ...
Strana 56
... ruin , to " the gates of hell ! " We should indeed be glad to know how often stage managers are guided , in their selection of plays , by the wish to lash vice and to laud virtue , to put down the one , and promote the other . The ...
... ruin , to " the gates of hell ! " We should indeed be glad to know how often stage managers are guided , in their selection of plays , by the wish to lash vice and to laud virtue , to put down the one , and promote the other . The ...
Strana 67
... ruin their morals , and sink their souls into perdition , sooner than lose a few impious and dissipated customers ; customers , by the bye , often better lost than gained ; for the visiting of Theatres is prima facie evidence of a man's ...
... ruin their morals , and sink their souls into perdition , sooner than lose a few impious and dissipated customers ; customers , by the bye , often better lost than gained ; for the visiting of Theatres is prima facie evidence of a man's ...
Strana 77
... ruin into which those are led who give themselves up to the habit of visit- ing Circusses ; for in that career they may be sure of getting bewildered , and be lost at last in the shades of endless misery . The Circus is indeed like the ...
... ruin into which those are led who give themselves up to the habit of visit- ing Circusses ; for in that career they may be sure of getting bewildered , and be lost at last in the shades of endless misery . The Circus is indeed like the ...
Strana 80
... ruin . But to return from this digression , if it be one . The principal difference between the Circus and the Theatre is , that in the Theatre bipeds , ge- nerally speaking , are the sole actors ; latterly , however , the rule has been ...
... ruin . But to return from this digression , if it be one . The principal difference between the Circus and the Theatre is , that in the Theatre bipeds , ge- nerally speaking , are the sole actors ; latterly , however , the rule has been ...
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Addison Albany animals ardent spirits Aristophanes become believe biped blessed brute bull-bait Cato cause christian Cicero Circus Circusses civil corrupt Cromwell dissipation divine drunkard drunkenness eternal Europe evil example exhibitions farmer fathers feel folly fools foul genius glorious Greece grins habits happiness heart heathen heaven holy honest hope horse-race horses human idle and vicious illustrious immortal improvement Intemperance John Jay labor least lessons liberty licentious live Lord mankind Mark Antony means ment mind mobocracy moral multitude murdered Napoleon Bonaparte nations nerally never New-York Nimrod patriotism perceive perhaps political Pollok Prince of Orange profession race Race-ground racter republican respectable Roman Senator Rome ruin scenes soul spect stage strong drink temperance Theatre thing thousands tion tragedy truth tyrants vice virtue virtuous weakness wickedness wine wisdom wise Witt young readers youth
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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.