Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volum 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 sider |
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Side vii
... shall always be able to give moft body , moit perfever- ing force of found , to that pitch of voice , to which in converfation we are accuftom- ed . Whereas , by fetting out on our high eft pitch or key , we certainly allow our felves ...
... shall always be able to give moft body , moit perfever- ing force of found , to that pitch of voice , to which in converfation we are accuftom- ed . Whereas , by fetting out on our high eft pitch or key , we certainly allow our felves ...
Side ix
... shall to - morrow . In like manner , in folemn discourse , the whole force and beauty of an expreflion often depend on the accented word ; and we may prefent to the hearers quite different views of the fame fentiment , by placing the ...
... shall to - morrow . In like manner , in folemn discourse , the whole force and beauty of an expreflion often depend on the accented word ; and we may prefent to the hearers quite different views of the fame fentiment , by placing the ...
Side 7
... shall not be disappointed of our hope . The following queftion is ftarted by one of the schoolmen . Suppofing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mais of the finest fand , and that a fingle grain or particle of this fand ...
... shall not be disappointed of our hope . The following queftion is ftarted by one of the schoolmen . Suppofing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mais of the finest fand , and that a fingle grain or particle of this fand ...
Side 11
... shall therefore utterly extingufh this melancholy thought , of our being over- looked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works , and the infinity of thofe objects among which he feems to be inceffantly` employed , if we confider ...
... shall therefore utterly extingufh this melancholy thought , of our being over- looked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works , and the infinity of thofe objects among which he feems to be inceffantly` employed , if we confider ...
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... shall fall away into nothing almost as foon as it is created ? Are fuch abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is ca- pable of ; and ...
... shall fall away into nothing almost as foon as it is created ? Are fuch abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is ca- pable of ; and ...
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Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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Populære avsnitt
Side 12 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Side 517 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Side 32 - 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 herself one time or other.
Side 180 - 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.
Side 249 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Side 22 - I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Side 28 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Side 2 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Side 21 - Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life...
Side 537 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...