An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindSeward and Williams, 1813 - 226 Seiten |
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... law of life , and not for the ostentation of science . W1 CHAP . II . ITHOUT a friend the world is but a wilderness . A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintan- ces , and not a friend amongst them all . If you have one friend ...
... law of life , and not for the ostentation of science . W1 CHAP . II . ITHOUT a friend the world is but a wilderness . A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintan- ces , and not a friend amongst them all . If you have one friend ...
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... laws our actions are governed , and who will suffer none to be finally punished for obedience . But , when in prospect of some good , whether natural or moral , we brake the rules prescribed to us , we withdraw from the direction of ...
... laws our actions are governed , and who will suffer none to be finally punished for obedience . But , when in prospect of some good , whether natural or moral , we brake the rules prescribed to us , we withdraw from the direction of ...
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... laws and enforcing them by severe penalties ; not- withstanding the wise and liberal provision which is made by some towns and some private gentlemen in the state ; yet there is still in many places , " à great and criminal neg-- lect ...
... laws and enforcing them by severe penalties ; not- withstanding the wise and liberal provision which is made by some towns and some private gentlemen in the state ; yet there is still in many places , " à great and criminal neg-- lect ...
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... laws produce , yet they are al- ways terrible , and destructive of happiness and virtue . 16. Misery is indeed the necessary result of all devia- tion from rectitude ; but early debauchery , early disease , early profligacy of all kinds ...
... laws produce , yet they are al- ways terrible , and destructive of happiness and virtue . 16. Misery is indeed the necessary result of all devia- tion from rectitude ; but early debauchery , early disease , early profligacy of all kinds ...
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... law of Egypt that no tax or tribute for the Grand Senior can be laid upon the people , unless the water rises to that height . If the flood falls much short of that altitude , a famine fol- lows . If the water rises to eighteen cubits a ...
... law of Egypt that no tax or tribute for the Grand Senior can be laid upon the people , unless the water rises to that height . If the flood falls much short of that altitude , a famine fol- lows . If the water rises to eighteen cubits a ...
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