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 ii
... fame clafs , provided with copies of the fame book , containing the proper variety , might be enabled to read it together , and thus benefit each other by the emulous study of the fame fubject or compofition , at the fame time , and ...
... fame clafs , provided with copies of the fame book , containing the proper variety , might be enabled to read it together , and thus benefit each other by the emulous study of the fame fubject or compofition , at the fame time , and ...
Side ix
... fame fentiment , by placing the emphafis differently , In the follow- ing words of our Saviour , obferve in what different lights the thought is placed , ac- cording as the words are pronounced . " Judas , betrayeft thou the Son of Man ...
... fame fentiment , by placing the emphafis differently , In the follow- ing words of our Saviour , obferve in what different lights the thought is placed , ac- cording as the words are pronounced . " Judas , betrayeft thou the Son of Man ...
Side xii
... fame time , that the conftant indulgence of a declamatory manner , is not favourable either to good compofition , or good deli- very ; and is in hazard of betraying public fpeakers into that monotony of tone and ca- dence , which is fo ...
... fame time , that the conftant indulgence of a declamatory manner , is not favourable either to good compofition , or good deli- very ; and is in hazard of betraying public fpeakers into that monotony of tone and ca- dence , which is fo ...
Side 4
... fame jocund confidence ; every man congratulated himself upon the foundness of his veffel , and believed him- felf able to stem the whirlpool in which his friend was swallowed , or glide over the rocks on which he was dafhed : nor was ...
... fame jocund confidence ; every man congratulated himself upon the foundness of his veffel , and believed him- felf able to stem the whirlpool in which his friend was swallowed , or glide over the rocks on which he was dafhed : nor was ...
Side 12
... fame activity , it would ftill find itfelf within the embrace of its Creator , and encom- paffed round with the immenfity of the Godhead . While we are in the body he is not lefs prefent with us , becaufe he is concealed from us . Oh ...
... fame activity , it would ftill find itfelf within the embrace of its Creator , and encom- paffed round with the immenfity of the Godhead . While we are in the body he is not lefs prefent with us , becaufe he is concealed from us . Oh ...
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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...