Nye engelsk Chrestomathie tilligemed en kort Grammatik til Brug for de høere klasserG. Bonnier, 1817 - 336 pages |
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... much for his whistle , When I saw another fond of popula rity , constantly employing himself in political bustles , neglecting his own af- fairs ; and ruining them by that neglects He pays and they laughed at me so much for my ...
... much for his whistle , When I saw another fond of popula rity , constantly employing himself in political bustles , neglecting his own af- fairs ; and ruining them by that neglects He pays and they laughed at me so much for my ...
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... employed only för transporting necessary provifions from one country , where they abound ,, to another , where they are wanting ; when by this it prevents famines , which w so frequent and so fatal before it was in- vented and become so ...
... employed only för transporting necessary provifions from one country , where they abound ,, to another , where they are wanting ; when by this it prevents famines , which w so frequent and so fatal before it was in- vented and become so ...
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... lazy and indolent ? To this purpose I re- member a circumstance . The skipper of a shallop , employed between Cape- May and Philadelphia , had done us some small fervice , for which he re- 2 sent fused to be paid . My wife , 21.
... lazy and indolent ? To this purpose I re- member a circumstance . The skipper of a shallop , employed between Cape- May and Philadelphia , had done us some small fervice , for which he re- 2 sent fused to be paid . My wife , 21.
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... lives in it expenci vely and in a few years ruins himself ; but the masons , carpenters , smiths , and other honest tradesmen , have been by his employ assisted in maintaining : 1 - and raising their families ; the farmer has ,,poses. ...
... lives in it expenci vely and in a few years ruins himself ; but the masons , carpenters , smiths , and other honest tradesmen , have been by his employ assisted in maintaining : 1 - and raising their families ; the farmer has ,,poses. ...
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... employ them , some in spining , others in making bricks , & c . for building , the value of my corn will be arrested ... employing a man I feed in making bricks , I em- ploy him in fiddling for me , the corn he eats is gone , and no part ...
... employ them , some in spining , others in making bricks , & c . for building , the value of my corn will be arrested ... employing a man I feed in making bricks , I em- ploy him in fiddling for me , the corn he eats is gone , and no part ...
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Page 3 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 4 - ... gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure. This however was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind ; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Page 7 - We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation.
Page 27 - It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labour would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life, want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure.
Page 139 - ... most parts of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. 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.
Page 3 - I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as...
Page 104 - ... embrace our holy religion ; they will not adopt our manners ; our people will not pollute themselves by intermarrying with them. Must we maintain them as beggars in our streets...
Page 126 - ... can behave with tranquillity and indifference, is truly great: whether peasant or courtier, he deserves admiration, and should be held up for our imitation and respect. While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities; while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of...
Page 7 - I listened through curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation. I .found, however, by some broken expressions that I heard now...
Page 5 - I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.