New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Հատոր 5C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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Արդյունքներ 18–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... thou art not ignorant of that summum bonum , which is only able to make thee happy in thy death as life ; I mean the true knowledge and worship of thy Creator and Re- deemer , without which all other things are vain and miserable . So ...
... thou art not ignorant of that summum bonum , which is only able to make thee happy in thy death as life ; I mean the true knowledge and worship of thy Creator and Re- deemer , without which all other things are vain and miserable . So ...
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... thou shouldest have cause to derive thy whole felicity and welfare rather from others than from whence thou receivedst thy breath and being ; I think it fit and agreeable to the affection I bear thee , to help thee with such rules and ...
... thou shouldest have cause to derive thy whole felicity and welfare rather from others than from whence thou receivedst thy breath and being ; I think it fit and agreeable to the affection I bear thee , to help thee with such rules and ...
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... thou spend not above three or four parts of thy reve- nues ; nor above a third of that in thy house . For the other two parts will do no more than defray thy extraordinaries , which always sur- mount the ordinary by much : otherwise thou ...
... thou spend not above three or four parts of thy reve- nues ; nor above a third of that in thy house . For the other two parts will do no more than defray thy extraordinaries , which always sur- mount the ordinary by much : otherwise thou ...
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... thou shalt leave them at thy death , they will thank death for it , and not thee . And I am persuaded that the foolish cockering of some parents , and the over stern carriage of others , causeth more men and women to take ill courses ...
... thou shalt leave them at thy death , they will thank death for it , and not thee . And I am persuaded that the foolish cockering of some parents , and the over stern carriage of others , causeth more men and women to take ill courses ...
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... thou mayest boldly require service at their hands . IV . Let thy kindred and allies be welcome to thy house and table , grace them with thy counte , nance , and father them in all honest actions . For by this means thou shalt so double ...
... thou mayest boldly require service at their hands . IV . Let thy kindred and allies be welcome to thy house and table , grace them with thy counte , nance , and father them in all honest actions . For by this means thou shalt so double ...
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Adderbury affectionate ANNA SEWARD assure believe blessing brother called comfort Cotterstock cousin DEAR SIR death desire duchess duke EARL EARL OF ROCHESTER endeavour esteem Eyam father favour fear give glad grace hand happiness hath hear heart honour hope humble servant JACOB TONSON JAMES THOMSON JOHN DRYDEN JOHN LILBURNE John Paston kind king Lady learning letter Lichfield live London lordship madam majesty matter MATTHEW PRIOR mean mercy mind Miss morning mother nature ness never night obliged OLIVER CROMWELL opinion passions person pleased pleasure poor pray present prince reason received remember RUSSELL TO LORD SAMUEL FOOTE sent Sir William Wyndham sister soul spirit sure tell thank thee thing THOMAS SHERIDAN thou thought tion told town true unto verses virtue wife wise wish word write young
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Էջ 200 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Էջ 202 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Էջ 17 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Էջ 247 - Man alone seems to be the only creature who has arrived to the natural size in this poor soil. Every part of the country presents the same dismal landscape. No grove nor brook lend their music to cheer the stranger, or make the inhabitants forget their poverty.
Էջ 134 - I have great love and regard towards you, and desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just, and peaceable life ; and the people I send are of the same mind, and shall, in all things, behave themselves accordingly...
Էջ 149 - I breed them all up to learning, beyond my fortune ; but they are too hopeful to be neglected, though I want. Be pleased to look on me with an eye of compassion : some small employment would render my condition easy.
Էջ 17 - I believe him to be a good man ; and that belief hath occasioned me to examine mine own conscience concerning his opinions.
Էջ 11 - Follow the steps of your master Christ, and take up your cross. Lay your sins on his back, and always embrace him. And as touching my death, rejoice as I do, good sister, that I shall be delivered of this corruption, and put on incorruption, for I am assured that I shall, for losing of a mortal life, win...
Էջ 11 - Lord: be penitent for your sins, and yet despair not: be strong in faith, yet presume not; and desire with St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ, with whom, even in death there is life. Be like the good servant, and even at midnight be waking, lest when death cometh and stealeth upon you, like a thief in the night, you be with the...
Էջ 60 - I thank you for the last regalo you gave me at your musceum, and for the good company. I heard you censur'd lately at Court, that you have lighted too foul upon Sir Inigo, and that you write with a porcupine's quill dipt in too much gall. Excuse me that I am so free with you, it is because I am in no common way of friendship.