Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Том 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 страници |
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... live by my learning ; for indeed , he had known very few ftudents that had not fome ftiff- nefs in their manner . They therefore agreed , that a domeftic tutor fhould be procured ; and hired an honeft gentleman of mean converfation and ...
... live by my learning ; for indeed , he had known very few ftudents that had not fome ftiff- nefs in their manner . They therefore agreed , that a domeftic tutor fhould be procured ; and hired an honeft gentleman of mean converfation and ...
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... live ten thousand more , would be the fame thing he is at prefent . Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her accomplishments , were her fa culties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall ...
... live ten thousand more , would be the fame thing he is at prefent . Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her accomplishments , were her fa culties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall ...
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... live within the influence of them . My fon and I are not of fortune to communicate our good actions or inten- tions to fo many as thefe gentlemen do ; but I will be bold to fay , my fon has , by the applause and approbation which his ...
... live within the influence of them . My fon and I are not of fortune to communicate our good actions or inten- tions to fo many as thefe gentlemen do ; but I will be bold to fay , my fon has , by the applause and approbation which his ...
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... Live thoughtless of the past , and careless of the future , without will , and perhaps with- cat power to compute the periods of life , or to compare the time which is already loft with that which may probably re- main . But the courfe ...
... Live thoughtless of the past , and careless of the future , without will , and perhaps with- cat power to compute the periods of life , or to compare the time which is already loft with that which may probably re- main . But the courfe ...
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... lives , tho ' much contracted by incidental distraction , would yet afford us a large space vacant to the exercise of rea- fon and virtue ; that we want nct time , but diligence , for great performances ; and that we fquander much of ...
... lives , tho ' much contracted by incidental distraction , would yet afford us a large space vacant to the exercise of rea- fon and virtue ; that we want nct time , but diligence , for great performances ; and that we fquander much of ...
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Страница 12 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Страница 517 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Страница 32 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Страница 180 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Страница 249 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Страница 22 - I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Страница 28 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Страница 2 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Страница 21 - Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life...
Страница 537 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...