An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindPublished and sold by David Hogan, 1809 - 230 頁 |
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第 22 頁
... common observations . To endeavor all one's days to fortify our minds with lear- ning and philosophy , is to spend so much in armor , that one has nothing left to defend . Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the ap- proach ...
... common observations . To endeavor all one's days to fortify our minds with lear- ning and philosophy , is to spend so much in armor , that one has nothing left to defend . Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the ap- proach ...
第 27 頁
... common with that of the rest of mankind ? Those who have never tast- ed the pleasures of love , are not exempt from the like cas- ualties ; and the lover is at least a gainer in regard to those pleasures which constitute no small part ...
... common with that of the rest of mankind ? Those who have never tast- ed the pleasures of love , are not exempt from the like cas- ualties ; and the lover is at least a gainer in regard to those pleasures which constitute no small part ...
第 28 頁
... common lan- guage , the former word is often used to express the latter . Our philosopher has been censured by some as deficient in warmth and feeling ; but the mildness of his manners has been allowed by all ; and it is certain that if ...
... common lan- guage , the former word is often used to express the latter . Our philosopher has been censured by some as deficient in warmth and feeling ; but the mildness of his manners has been allowed by all ; and it is certain that if ...
第 31 頁
... common topics of discourse . - When his knowledge or learning at any time appeared , it was delivered with the utmost plainness ; and without the least show of dogmatism . 21. On his part he was charmed with the society of the good ...
... common topics of discourse . - When his knowledge or learning at any time appeared , it was delivered with the utmost plainness ; and without the least show of dogmatism . 21. On his part he was charmed with the society of the good ...
第 36 頁
... common to their profession , answered , " then you know not Mademoiselle , sir ! you never beheld a lovelier . " - " La Roche ! " exclaimed he , in ely alas it was she indeed ! " The appearance of grief and surprise which his ...
... common to their profession , answered , " then you know not Mademoiselle , sir ! you never beheld a lovelier . " - " La Roche ! " exclaimed he , in ely alas it was she indeed ! " The appearance of grief and surprise which his ...
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第 207 頁 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
第 214 頁 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
第 216 頁 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
第 213 頁 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
第 79 頁 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
第 190 頁 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
第 153 頁 - Italy, bind, scourge, torture with fire and red hot plates of iron, and at last put to the infamous death of the cross, a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman commonwealth, nor the...
第 169 頁 - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
第 208 頁 - Long in his highness' favor, and do justice For truth's sake, and his conscience ; that his bones, When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
第 217 頁 - When that rash humor, which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful ? Bru. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.