Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Том 7author, 1797 |
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... parent of many vices . It is impossible to support the purity and dignity of morals , without opposing the world on vari ous occasions , even though we should stand alone N 2 H I alone . That gentleness that belongs to virtue and which ...
... parent of many vices . It is impossible to support the purity and dignity of morals , without opposing the world on vari ous occasions , even though we should stand alone N 2 H I alone . That gentleness that belongs to virtue and which ...
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... parental sensibility , laying a particular stress upon the great disproportion in point of years between Barbello and Isabella , and enlarging , with equal energy , on the many imperfections , external and internal , by which the former ...
... parental sensibility , laying a particular stress upon the great disproportion in point of years between Barbello and Isabella , and enlarging , with equal energy , on the many imperfections , external and internal , by which the former ...
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... parents , but it would be hard indeed if they were to be answerable for the one or the other . ANECDOTE OF THE LATE MR . RALPH ALLEN . HE late Mr. Ralph Allen , who has been THE universally honoured with the epithet of good , was ...
... parents , but it would be hard indeed if they were to be answerable for the one or the other . ANECDOTE OF THE LATE MR . RALPH ALLEN . HE late Mr. Ralph Allen , who has been THE universally honoured with the epithet of good , was ...
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... PARENTAL PARTIALITY . A TALE . ARENTS are seldom guilty of greater mis- takes in their behaviour to their children , than when they make invidious distinctions be- tween tween them , treating some of them with parti- cular ( 133 )
... PARENTAL PARTIALITY . A TALE . ARENTS are seldom guilty of greater mis- takes in their behaviour to their children , than when they make invidious distinctions be- tween tween them , treating some of them with parti- cular ( 133 )
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... parents have occasioned many scenes of infelicity ; by those partialities brothers have been set against brothers , sisters thrown into a state of warfare with each other , and innume- rable disquiets have been produced by them in ...
... parents have occasioned many scenes of infelicity ; by those partialities brothers have been set against brothers , sisters thrown into a state of warfare with each other , and innume- rable disquiets have been produced by them in ...
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Страница 195 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Страница 185 - ... them. As Greece and Rome are the fountains from whence have flowed all kinds of excellence, to that veneration which they have a right to claim for the...
Страница 101 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Страница 90 - For no assumed behaviour can at all times hide the real character. In that unaffected civility, which springs from a gentle mind, there is a charm infinitely more powerful, than in all the studied manners of the most finished courtier. True gentleness is...
Страница 69 - What a gloom hangs all around! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock or the distant watchdog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity.
Страница 92 - Attacked by great injuries, the man of mild and gentle spirit will feel what human nature feels ; and will defend and resent as his duty allows him.
Страница 198 - He supersedes every little prospect of gain and advantage which offers itself here, if he does not find it consistent with his views of an hereafter. In a word, his hopes are full of immortality, his schemes...
Страница 91 - Gentleness is, in truth, the great avenue to mutual enjoyment. Amidst the strife of interfering interests, it tempers the violence of contention, and keeps alive the seeds of harmony. It softens animosities; renews endearments ; and renders the countenance of man a refreshment to man. Banish gentleness from the earth ; suppose the world to be filled with none but harsh and contentious spirits ; and what sort of society would remain ? the solitude of the desert were preferable to it. The conflict...
Страница 117 - ... time. If you have resolution enough to do this, you cannot but love learning ; for the mind always loves that to which it has been long, steadily and voluntarily attached.
Страница 34 - Were they to give us in their catalogue of such worthies as are now living, how different would it be from that which any of our own species would draw up! We are dazzled with the splendour of titles, the ostentation of learning, the noise of victories...