The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining: abridged from the larger volume: intended to assist in introducing scholars at classical and other schools, to an acquaintance with useful and ornamental knowledge..Messrs. Rivingtons, Longman, 1792 - 456 стор. |
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... says and what have you been doing ? An't pleafe Rhadamanthus , be pleafed to file off to the your worthip , fays fhe , I did not live quite left , and make room for the venerable matron forty years ; and in that time brought my that ...
... says and what have you been doing ? An't pleafe Rhadamanthus , be pleafed to file off to the your worthip , fays fhe , I did not live quite left , and make room for the venerable matron forty years ; and in that time brought my that ...
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... say on this fubjećt . § 12. On the Concife STYLE . Ibid . One of the first and most obvious diftinctions of the different kinds of Style , is what arifes from an author's fpreading out his thoughts more or lefs . This diftinction forms ...
... say on this fubjećt . § 12. On the Concife STYLE . Ibid . One of the first and most obvious diftinctions of the different kinds of Style , is what arifes from an author's fpreading out his thoughts more or lefs . This diftinction forms ...
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... say juft is much to be commended for being the firft what they should fay , and no more . The that confidered what he was moft capable of ftory is always going on ; and goes on juft as excelling in , and not endeavouring to thine it ...
... say juft is much to be commended for being the firft what they should fay , and no more . The that confidered what he was moft capable of ftory is always going on ; and goes on juft as excelling in , and not endeavouring to thine it ...
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... say to every perfon , and upon all occafions , that which he thought would please most ; fo that words or promifes went very cafily from him . And he had fo ill an opinion of mankind , that he thought the great art of living and go ...
... say to every perfon , and upon all occafions , that which he thought would please most ; fo that words or promifes went very cafily from him . And he had fo ill an opinion of mankind , that he thought the great art of living and go ...
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... say with Sancho Panca , that fhould I recover , and " mitres thereupon be fuffered to rain down from heaven as thick as hail , not one of them would fit it . " - Yorick's last breath was hanging upon his trembling lips , ready to depart ...
... say with Sancho Panca , that fhould I recover , and " mitres thereupon be fuffered to rain down from heaven as thick as hail , not one of them would fit it . " - Yorick's last breath was hanging upon his trembling lips , ready to depart ...
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Сторінка 3 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Сторінка 1 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and, taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Сторінка 70 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Сторінка 249 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Сторінка 36 - Every blessing we enjoy, by what means soever it may be derived upon us, is the gift of Him who is the great Author of Good, and Father of Mercies.
Сторінка 365 - A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think 'Tis day, and will never be night...
Сторінка 1 - I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was...
Сторінка 36 - It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command .which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification that accompanies it.
Сторінка 1 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Сторінка 338 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...