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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... sure , that it is better to have such a man as Lu- " cilius our friend than our enemy . " Having thus spoken , he embraced Lucilius , and commended him to the care of one of his friends . Desperate Fidelity in Friendship unexpectedly re ...
... sure , that it is better to have such a man as Lu- " cilius our friend than our enemy . " Having thus spoken , he embraced Lucilius , and commended him to the care of one of his friends . Desperate Fidelity in Friendship unexpectedly re ...
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... sure I have al- ways succeeded : I wish the Teacher to use his own judgment , in this respect , to be particularly attentive to the capacity of his pupil , and to give him two , three , or more points , as he finds his capacity equal to ...
... sure I have al- ways succeeded : I wish the Teacher to use his own judgment , in this respect , to be particularly attentive to the capacity of his pupil , and to give him two , three , or more points , as he finds his capacity equal to ...
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... sure answers so many good and useful pur- poses , that we shall not be surprised this art has been so much cultivated and admired in all civilised nations Antiq . The remotest ages of antiquity give testimony to the important influence ...
... sure answers so many good and useful pur- poses , that we shall not be surprised this art has been so much cultivated and admired in all civilised nations Antiq . The remotest ages of antiquity give testimony to the important influence ...
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... sure with such plain simple tunes as are suited to their simple state of society . Local . Italy , in this as well as in the other fine arts , has generally excelled the rest of Europe ; though Germany seems of late to be exerting ...
... sure with such plain simple tunes as are suited to their simple state of society . Local . Italy , in this as well as in the other fine arts , has generally excelled the rest of Europe ; though Germany seems of late to be exerting ...
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... sure to lose the " good opinion of those with whom they are " too familiar . " Conc . It may , therefore , be laid down as confirmed by reason and experience , that nothing requires greater caution in our conduct , than our beha- viour ...
... sure to lose the " good opinion of those with whom they are " too familiar . " Conc . It may , therefore , be laid down as confirmed by reason and experience , that nothing requires greater caution in our conduct , than our beha- viour ...
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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...