Young Gentleman and Lady's Explanatory Monitor: A Selection from the Best Authors Extant, Upon a New Plan, Designed for SchoolsE. Griswold, Jun., printer, 1818 - 260 páginas |
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... thing of the kind that I have seen pub- lished . JACOB LINDLEY , President of the College at Athens , Ohio . March 10 , 1814 . Having hastily examined ' The Young Gentleman and La- dy's Explanatory Monitor , ' I think it well adapted ...
... thing of the kind that I have seen pub- lished . JACOB LINDLEY , President of the College at Athens , Ohio . March 10 , 1814 . Having hastily examined ' The Young Gentleman and La- dy's Explanatory Monitor , ' I think it well adapted ...
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... things put together . In no station , and no period , let us think ourselves secure from the dangers which spring from our pas sions . Every age and every sta- tion they beset ; from youth to gray hairs and from the peasant to the ...
... things put together . In no station , and no period , let us think ourselves secure from the dangers which spring from our pas sions . Every age and every sta- tion they beset ; from youth to gray hairs and from the peasant to the ...
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... thing , and of the gen- just of the age we live in . re- Few men are able to know all the , ill they do .. No accidents are so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advan- tagé from them , nor are there any so lucky , but what the ...
... thing , and of the gen- just of the age we live in . re- Few men are able to know all the , ill they do .. No accidents are so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advan- tagé from them , nor are there any so lucky , but what the ...
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... things , that common words and ac tions , spoke and done in an agreea- ble manner , with some knowledge of what passes in ... thing . with 3 Superficially , ad . without go- ing deep . We may say of agreeableness , distinct5 from beauty , 02.
... things , that common words and ac tions , spoke and done in an agreea- ble manner , with some knowledge of what passes in ... thing . with 3 Superficially , ad . without go- ing deep . We may say of agreeableness , distinct5 from beauty , 02.
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... things , commonly become icapable of great ones . Few things are impracticable in themselves ; and it is for want of application , rather than of means , that men fail of success . In every profession . every indi- vidual2 affects to ...
... things , commonly become icapable of great ones . Few things are impracticable in themselves ; and it is for want of application , rather than of means , that men fail of success . In every profession . every indi- vidual2 affects to ...
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Página 235 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Página 235 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 225 - What, and how true thou art ; he will advance thee ; Some little memory of me will stir him (I know his noble nature) not to let Thy hopeful service perish too. Good Cromwell, Neglect him not ; make use now and provide For thine own future safety. Crom — O my Lord ! Must I then leave you ? Must I needs forego So good, so noble, and so true a master ? Bear witness all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.
Página 188 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore...
Página 225 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no...
Página 133 - The space they possess is so exceedingly little in comparison of the whole, that it would scarce make a blank in the creation. The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other; as it is possible there may be such a sense in ourselves hereafter, or in creatures which are at present more exalted than ourselves. We see many stars by the help of glasses, which we do not discover with our naked eyes; and the finer...
Página 226 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's...
Página 118 - ... his afflictions as he ought to do will naturally end in the removal of them: it makes him easy here, because it can make him happy hereafter.
Página 147 - But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
Página 223 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.