A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences; to which is Added, an English Grammar for the Use of the ItaliansC. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1762 - 396 страници |
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accent addjettivi altrui amare amato ardour avéffi avúto becauſe bifogna cafo cofa colla confider confonant dittongo effere effi Eglino ending Engliſh faid fapere fays fcrivono fecondo feldom felf felves feminine fempre fente fenza fhall fhould fiamo fillaba find fingular firft foffe foftantivi folo fome fometimes fono forfe found fovente ftáte ftato fteffo ftudio fuch fulla fuono fyllable fyllables generally genitivo give good great happineſs himſelf houſe inftead Inglefi Ingleſe Italian know lafcia language laſt lefs lettera life likewife little love loved mafculine mente mind moft muft muſt Neffuna never noftri nouns paffare perfona pleaſure Plur plural poetry poffono Prefent Preterito pronounced pronunzia quafi quefto queſto quì right ſhall Sing ſmall thefe themſelves theſe thing think thofe thoſe Thou three time tion uſed verbo verbs verfo virtue vocale voftro vowel whofe word words writers
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Страница 201 - Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind ; it does not hide our faults from ourfelves but perfuades us that they efcape the notice of others, and difpofes us to refent cenfures left we fhould confefs them to be juft. We are fecretly confcious of defecls and vices which we hope to conceal from
Страница 195 - ages and remote events. Nothing has fo much expofed men of learning to contempt and ridicule, as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themfelves. Thofe who have been taught to confider the inftitutions of the fchools as giving the laft perfection to human abilities, are
Страница 237 - them with the utmoft affiduity, can confer no valuable or permanent reward ; of beings who ignorantly judge of what they do not underftand, or partially determine what they never have examined, and whofe fentence is therefore of no weight till it has received the ratification of our own
Страница 244 - without any meafure but intereft, and to lofe fhame without fubftituting virtue. Such is the condition of life that fomething is always wanting to happinefs. In youth we have warm hopes which are foon blafted by rafhnefs and negligence, and great defigns which are defeated by inexperience. In age we have knowledge and prudence without
Страница 177 - Books which have ftood the teft of time, and been admired through all the changes ' which the mind of man has fuffered from the various revolutions of knowledge and the prevalence of contrary cuftoms, have a better claim to our regard than any modern can boaft, becaufe the long continuance of their reputation proves
Страница 237 - from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the bleffings of life are more bountifully beftowed, or with imaginary ftates of delight and fecurity perhaps unattainable by mortals. Few are placed in a fituation fo gloomy and diftrefsful as not to fee every day beings yet more forlorn
Страница 181 - No fpecies of falfhood is more frequent than flattery, to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by intereft, and the friend by tendernefs. Thofe who are neither fervile nor timorous, are yet defirous to beftow pleafure ; and while unjuft demands of praife continue to be made, there will always be fome whom hope, fear or
Страница 254 - to pay for their wine with the mirth which it qualifies them to produce. Full of this opinion they crowd with little invitation wherever the fmell of a feaft allures them ; but are feldom encouraged to repeat their vifits, being dreaded by • the pert as rivals, and hated by the dull as difturbers of the company.
Страница 276 - that mankind is one vaft republick where every individual receives many benefits from the labour of others, which by labouring in his turn for others he is obliged to repay ; and that where the united efforts of all are not able to exempt all from mifery, none have a right to withdraw from their tafk of vigilance,
Страница 256 - by incidental excellencies ; yet the toil with which performance ftruggles after idea, is .fo irkfome and difgufting, and fo frequent is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he