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 1 到 5 筆結果,共 23 筆
第 12 頁
... souls ; without this the highest state of life is insipid , and with it , the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . V. HONORABLE age is not that which standeth in length of time , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the ...
... souls ; without this the highest state of life is insipid , and with it , the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . V. HONORABLE age is not that which standeth in length of time , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the ...
第 22 頁
... soul . He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he un- dertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn any thing ; for this reason , because they understand every ...
... soul . He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he un- dertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn any thing ; for this reason , because they understand every ...
第 24 頁
... soul , and subdues every irregular appetite . 7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumspection , of her female acquaintance especially . She has remark- ed , that what renders women prone to detraction , is talking of their own ...
... soul , and subdues every irregular appetite . 7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumspection , of her female acquaintance especially . She has remark- ed , that what renders women prone to detraction , is talking of their own ...
第 31 頁
... souls were not of a mould for harsher feel- ings - hatred never dwelt with them . 19. They travelled by short stages ; for the philosopher was as good as his word , in taking care that the old man should not be fatigued . The parties ...
... souls were not of a mould for harsher feel- ings - hatred never dwelt with them . 19. They travelled by short stages ; for the philosopher was as good as his word , in taking care that the old man should not be fatigued . The parties ...
第 34 頁
... soul , you say , which nature has almost denied you , which from the effects you see it have on others , you are sure it must be highly delightful . 3. " Why should not the same thing be said of reli- gion ? Trust me , I feel it in the ...
... soul , you say , which nature has almost denied you , which from the effects you see it have on others , you are sure it must be highly delightful . 3. " Why should not the same thing be said of reli- gion ? Trust me , I feel it in the ...
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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.