The Teacher's Assistant in English Composition, Or, Easy Rules for Writing Themes and Composing Exercises: On Subjects Proper for the Improvement of Youth of Both Sexes at School : to which are Added Hints for Correcting and Improving Juvenile CompositionJ.T. Buckingham, 1810 - 263 страници |
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... rea- son in support of the former . 4th , The Simile ; where we bring in something in Nature or Art similar to what is affirmed in our Theme , for illustrating the truth of it . 5th , The Example ; where we bring instances from History ...
... rea- son in support of the former . 4th , The Simile ; where we bring in something in Nature or Art similar to what is affirmed in our Theme , for illustrating the truth of it . 5th , The Example ; where we bring instances from History ...
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... Reas . Because the beginnings of every thing are al- ways the most difficult as we proceed , we ac- quire , ease and expedition by habit ; and the labour lessens as we draw near to a conclusion . Conf . Besides , as we have a strong ...
... Reas . Because the beginnings of every thing are al- ways the most difficult as we proceed , we ac- quire , ease and expedition by habit ; and the labour lessens as we draw near to a conclusion . Conf . Besides , as we have a strong ...
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... Reas . For , such a mixture of good and bad , of virtue and vice , is there in almost every thing we see ; so much is it the interest of falsehood to wear the appearances of truth , that we ought always to suspect what has a fair ...
... Reas . For , such a mixture of good and bad , of virtue and vice , is there in almost every thing we see ; so much is it the interest of falsehood to wear the appearances of truth , that we ought always to suspect what has a fair ...
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... Reas . So many and unexpected are the disappoint- ments in life , so frequently do things happen contrary to our expectations , that unless we seize the present moment , we run the greatest risk of being disappointed , Gonf . If it were ...
... Reas . So many and unexpected are the disappoint- ments in life , so frequently do things happen contrary to our expectations , that unless we seize the present moment , we run the greatest risk of being disappointed , Gonf . If it were ...
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... Reas . For , so many and various are the evils incident to human nature , and so frequently are our greatest earthly comforts dashed with intervals gof pain and uneasiness , that no state of life , whether of youth or age , of riches or ...
... Reas . For , so many and various are the evils incident to human nature , and so frequently are our greatest earthly comforts dashed with intervals gof pain and uneasiness , that no state of life , whether of youth or age , of riches or ...
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Страница 170 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Страница 215 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Страница 54 - Pale, cold, and halfspeechless in the arms of his Damon, Pythias replied in broken accents, " Fatal haste ! Cruel impatience ! What envious powers have wrought impossibilities in your favour? But I will not be wholly disappointed. Since I cannot die to save, I will not survive you.
Страница 73 - Greeks thought there had been four ages — the Golden age, the Silver age, the Brazen age, and the Iron age — and that people had been getting worse in each of them.
Страница 52 - Damon was ira£2 mediately set at liberty. The king and all the courtiers were astonished at this action ; and, therefore, when the day of execution drew near, the tyrant had the curiosity to visit Pythias in his confinement. After some conversation on the subject of friendship, in which the tyrant...
Страница 131 - It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man who was going to a feast, he took him up in the street and carried him home to his friends, as one who was running into imminent danger, had not he prevented him...
Страница i - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...
Страница 55 - Live, live, ye incomparable pair !" he cried, " ye have borne unquestionable testimony to the existence of virtue ! and that virtue equally evinces the existence of a God to reward it. Live happy, live renowned: and, Oh ! form me by your precepts, as ye have invited me by your example, to be worthy of the participation of so sacred a friendship.
Страница 53 - Dionysius was awed and confounded by the dignity of these sentiments, and by the manner in which they were uttered : he felt his heart struck by a slight sense of invading truth : but it served rather to perplex than undeceive him.
Страница 259 - He that embarks in the voyage of life, will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar...