Rules for English composition, and particularly for themesLongman, 1813 - 176 من الصفحات |
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acquire advantage agita Ahasuerus amiable animal Antiparos appears arguments attainment beautiful BLAIR blessings cavern cerning consider DANGER OF KEEPING dark delight desire discretion disposition duke of Mantua duty EARL OF STRafford earth elegance endowments ENFIELD envy esteem evil excellent faculties folly friendship habit Haman happiness hath heart honour hope Houries human improvement indolence Judg judgment keeping bad company kind knowledge labour learning lence Lindley Murray literary education lives mankind mind MODESTY AND ASSURANCE nature never night object observe obtained opinion ourselves pass passions perly PERSIAN LANGUAGE persons pleasure possessed praise present princes quired reason religion religious RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE render rience RIPPINGHAM sentiments sincerity SIR WILLIAM JONES SLOTH soul spirit suffer tation temper thee thine things thou thought tion truth vice virtue virtuous wisdom wise youth
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الصفحة 136 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
الصفحة 72 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
الصفحة 164 - The sides of the mountains were covered with trees; the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers; every blast shook spices from the rocks and every month dropped fruits upon the ground.
الصفحة 167 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
الصفحة 175 - This sun, with all its attendant planets, is but a very little part of the grand machine of the universe; every star, though in appearance no bigger than the diamond that glitters upon a lady's ring, is really a vast globe, like the sun in size and in glory; no less spacious, no less luminous, than...
الصفحة 135 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
الصفحة 161 - I still wished to see distant countries ; listened with rapture to the relations of travellers ; and resolved some time to ask my dismission, that I might feast my soul with novelty: but my presence was always necessary; and the stream of business hurried me along. Sometimes I was afraid lest I should be charged with ingratitude; but I still proposed to travel, and therefore would not confine myself by marriage.
الصفحة 101 - It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray himself one time or other.
الصفحة 135 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope, with...
الصفحة 103 - In a word, whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.