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 |
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... Honor thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother . How canft thou recompenfe them the things which they have done for thee ? There is nothing of fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . The lips of ...
... Honor thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother . How canft thou recompenfe them the things which they have done for thee ? There is nothing of fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . The lips of ...
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... honor and honefty feems , to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honor does for the fake of character . A liar begins with making falfehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth ...
... honor and honefty feems , to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honor does for the fake of character . A liar begins with making falfehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth ...
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... Honor is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean , but a neceffary substitute for it in focieties which have none . a fort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the sterling cafh of true morality ...
... Honor is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean , but a neceffary substitute for it in focieties which have none . a fort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the sterling cafh of true morality ...
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... honor Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover , that stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! -Tis flander ! Whofe edge is fharper than a fword ; whofe tongue Out - venoms all the worms of Nile ...
... honor Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover , that stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! -Tis flander ! Whofe edge is fharper than a fword ; whofe tongue Out - venoms all the worms of Nile ...
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... honor and decency , must when he is young , confider that he shall one day be old - and remember , when he is old , that he has once been young . Avarice is always poor , but poor , by her own fault . The maxim which Periander of ...
... honor and decency , must when he is young , confider that he shall one day be old - and remember , when he is old , that he has once been young . Avarice is always poor , but poor , by her own fault . The maxim which Periander of ...
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againſt Agathocles almoſt becauſe beſt bleffing Blithe Caius Verres Columbus confequences confifting converfation daugh daughter defire Delvill difcovered diſtance eafy exprefs eyes faid falt fame father favage fave fcene fecure feemed feen feet fenfe fervice feven feveral fhall fhould fide fituation fmall fociety fome fometimes foon foul ftands ftate ftill ftone fubject fuch fuffered fuppofed fure greateſt happineſs heart himſelf honor houfe houſe Hunks huſband Indians intereft itſelf juft Lady laft laſt lefs Madam marriage Mifs Wal mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never NOAH WEBSTER obferved occafion paffed paffions perfon philofopher pleafing pleaſe pleaſure plebian poffible prefent prifoner propofal raiſed reafon refpect rife Roche ſhall ſhe Spain ſpeak ſtate Syphax thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand uſe virtue voice weft whofe worfe yourſelf
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Page 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
Page 214 - 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, and truth's ; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Page 213 - 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...
Page 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 190 - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
Page 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Page 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Page 62 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...