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 Mind. Being the Third Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English LanguageHudson and Goodwin, 1802 - 240 страници |
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... wife man will defire no more than what he can get justly , ufe foberly , diftribute cheerfully , and live upon contentedly . A contented mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear ...
... wife man will defire no more than what he can get justly , ufe foberly , diftribute cheerfully , and live upon contentedly . A contented mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear ...
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... wife men corre there own . No man hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adver ? fty never happened , When our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them , It is as great a point of wifdom to hide ignorance as to ...
... wife men corre there own . No man hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adver ? fty never happened , When our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them , It is as great a point of wifdom to hide ignorance as to ...
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... wife but by his own wisdom . He who wants good fenfe is unhappy in having learning ; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may ...
... wife but by his own wisdom . He who wants good fenfe is unhappy in having learning ; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may ...
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... wife action in an age ; but to ef cape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to di vide Afia equally with him , he aufwered : The ...
... wife action in an age ; but to ef cape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to di vide Afia equally with him , he aufwered : The ...
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... wife man will fear in every thing . He that contemneth fmall things ; fhall fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up by his friends ; but a poor man being down is thruft away by his friends ; when a rich man ...
... wife man will fear in every thing . He that contemneth fmall things ; fhall fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up by his friends ; but a poor man being down is thruft away by his friends ; when a rich man ...
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