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 MindJoshua Cushing, 1805 - 226 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by fecuring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . Philofophy is then only valuable , when it ...
... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by fecuring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . Philofophy is then only valuable , when it ...
Pàgina 13
... fouls ; without this , the highest ftate of life is infipid , and with it , the lowest is a paradise . H CHAP . V. ONORABLE age is not that which ftandeth in length of time , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the ...
... fouls ; without this , the highest ftate of life is infipid , and with it , the lowest is a paradise . H CHAP . V. ONORABLE age is not that which ftandeth in length of time , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the ...
Pàgina 15
... foul . He who tells a lie is not fenfible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn any thing ; for this rea . fon , because they understand every ...
... foul . He who tells a lie is not fenfible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn any thing ; for this rea . fon , because they understand every ...
Pàgina 18
... their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once . There is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly diftil it out .: Fort For our bad neighbors make us early ftirrers ; Which 18 THE AMERICAN SELECTION .
... their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once . There is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly diftil it out .: Fort For our bad neighbors make us early ftirrers ; Which 18 THE AMERICAN SELECTION .
Pàgina 27
... foul , and fubdues every irregular appetite . " 7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumfpec- tion , of her female acquaintance efpecially . She has re- marked , that what renders women prone to deftraction , is talking of their ...
... foul , and fubdues every irregular appetite . " 7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumfpec- tion , of her female acquaintance efpecially . She has re- marked , that what renders women prone to deftraction , is talking of their ...
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