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... regard to size and the low price consequent thereon , has curtailed other parts , and precluded a full and detailed application of the instructions , to the peculiar requirements of the more uncultivated . In the doctrines here advanced ...
... regard to size and the low price consequent thereon , has curtailed other parts , and precluded a full and detailed application of the instructions , to the peculiar requirements of the more uncultivated . In the doctrines here advanced ...
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... regard to literary treasures , no language will repay attention more fully than the English . From what has been said , it is also clear that the grammar of a language is to be learnt in its literature . Grammar is no arbitrary thing ...
... regard to literary treasures , no language will repay attention more fully than the English . From what has been said , it is also clear that the grammar of a language is to be learnt in its literature . Grammar is no arbitrary thing ...
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... regard to grammar . But if improvement is possible , the use of reasoning , by which all improvements are made , is not banished from the science of grammar . Even in this science of imitation , then , obedience must not be blind and ...
... regard to grammar . But if improvement is possible , the use of reasoning , by which all improvements are made , is not banished from the science of grammar . Even in this science of imitation , then , obedience must not be blind and ...
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... regard to which Latham , with all his merits , and they are very numerous and very great , has not wholly avoided ... regard to the forms of the language or its gram- mar ; secondly , in regard to the productions of the language or its ...
... regard to which Latham , with all his merits , and they are very numerous and very great , has not wholly avoided ... regard to the forms of the language or its gram- mar ; secondly , in regard to the productions of the language or its ...
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... regard to the spelling , and correct your spelling by the spelling of the Bible . Again compare it as to the words . You have one word , the Bible has another . If your word is positively inaccurate strike it out , and put in its place ...
... regard to the spelling , and correct your spelling by the spelling of the Bible . Again compare it as to the words . You have one word , the Bible has another . If your word is positively inaccurate strike it out , and put in its place ...
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Page 263 - Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it and his habitation: but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
Page 276 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 37 - She wandered up and down; And many a hill did Lucy climb: But never reached the town. The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide.
Page 108 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 157 - This teaches a lady to quit her fan gracefully when she throws it aside in order to take up a pack of cards, adjust a curl of hair, replace a falling pin, or apply herself to any other matter of importance. This part of the exercise, as it only consists in tossing a fan with an air upon a long table, (which stands by for that purpose,) may be learned in two days' time as well as in a twelvemonth.
Page 157 - The Fluttering of the Fan is the last,' and, indeed, the master-piece of the whole exercise ; but if a lady does not misspend her time, she may make herself mistress of it in three months. I generally lay aside the dog-days and the hot time of the summer for the teaching this part of the exercise ; for as soon as ever I pronounce Flutter your Fans...
Page 156 - The ladies who carry fans under me are drawn up twice a day in my great hall, where they are instructed in the use of their arms, and exercised by the following words of command : — Handle your fans, Unfurl your fans, Discharge your fans, Ground your fans, Recover your fans, Flutter your fans.
Page 162 - ... poor, will render your poverty respectable, and make the proudest feel it unjust to laugh at the meanness of your fortunes; love that which will comfort you, adorn you, and never quit you; which will open to you the kingdom of thought, and all the boundless regions of conception, as an asylum against the cruelty, the injustice, and the pain that may be your lot in the outer world ; that which will make your motives habitually great and honourable, and light up in an instant a thousand noble disdains...
Page 25 - , WE are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features ; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 118 - I mean enthusiasm : which, laying^ by reason, would set up revelation without it; whereby in effect it takes away both reason and revelation, and substitutes in the room of it the ungrounded fancies of a man's own brain, and assumes them for a foundation both of opinion and conduct.