The Secretary, and Complete Letter Writer: Containing a Collection of Letters Upon Most Occasions and Situations in Life. To which is Added, an Essay on Letter WritingKnott & Lloyd, 1803 - 168 sivua |
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... pleasure to you and my mamma , and make every body love me . Pray give my love to all my relations . I am , Your dutiful Son . * From a young Lady to her Mamma , desiring to learn Arithmetic . DEAR MAMMA , MANY young ladies here , who ...
... pleasure to you and my mamma , and make every body love me . Pray give my love to all my relations . I am , Your dutiful Son . * From a young Lady to her Mamma , desiring to learn Arithmetic . DEAR MAMMA , MANY young ladies here , who ...
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... pleasure and profit . Even the news- papers , which are left at the school for our perusal , cannot be read with satisfaction without a know- ledge of this science ; an article of intelligence from either of the Indies would convey but ...
... pleasure and profit . Even the news- papers , which are left at the school for our perusal , cannot be read with satisfaction without a know- ledge of this science ; an article of intelligence from either of the Indies would convey but ...
Sivu 31
... pleasure . The tender affection , I feel for you , will induce me to take the first opportunity , of enquiring into Mr. D.'s character ; and if it answers my hopes , I shall gladly consent to an union , which affords you a prospect of ...
... pleasure . The tender affection , I feel for you , will induce me to take the first opportunity , of enquiring into Mr. D.'s character ; and if it answers my hopes , I shall gladly consent to an union , which affords you a prospect of ...
Sivu 50
... pleasure by every attentive beholder : but the emotions of different spectators , though similar in kind , are widely different in degree ; and to relish , with full delight , the enchanting scenes of nature , the mind must be ...
... pleasure by every attentive beholder : but the emotions of different spectators , though similar in kind , are widely different in degree ; and to relish , with full delight , the enchanting scenes of nature , the mind must be ...
Sivu 51
... pleasures of the imagination are almost en- tirely derived ; and the elegant arts owe their choicest beauties to a taste for the contemplation of nature . Painting and sculpture are express imitations of visible objects ; and poetry ...
... pleasures of the imagination are almost en- tirely derived ; and the elegant arts owe their choicest beauties to a taste for the contemplation of nature . Painting and sculpture are express imitations of visible objects ; and poetry ...
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accusative acquaintance adjective affection affectionate Bedouin brother called could,should dare daugh daughter DEAR SIR death denotes durst duty endeavour esteem evil father formed fortitude fortune friendship FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gentleman give gone Grace happiness heart hope human humble Servant husband IBID IMPERATIVE MOOD INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD Johnson kind learning letter Lord loved Luxembourg Madam Maignet ment mind mother nature never PARTICIPLE passion perhaps person Petrarch placed pleasure Plural POPE POTENTIAL MOOD PRESENT TENSE PRETER PRETERIMPERFECT TENSE PRETERPERFECT PRETERPLUPERFECT TENSE prison pronoun reason received revolutionary revolutionary tribunal right honourable Robespierre scene sense shew shouldest sincere Singular sometimes soothing soul SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantives suffered tears tenderness thing Thou hast Thou mayest Thou mightest Thou shalt tion tribunal Vaucluse verb virtue vowel wife wilt wish words wouldest write young lady your's
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Sivu 93 - The greatest benefit which one friend can confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues. This your mother will still perform, if...
Sivu lvii - ... whole The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God and love of man.
Sivu vii - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he prayed and felt for all...
Sivu 143 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Sivu 74 - I am ignorant of any one quality, that is amiable in a man, which is not equally so in a woman : I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature. Nor do I know one vice or folly, which is not equally detestable in both.
Sivu xv - Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less?
Sivu 157 - Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting our first thoughts, and endeavour to recommend our opinion by studied ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style.
Sivu 144 - Burns's poems, and have read them twice ; and though they be written in a language that is new to me, and many of them on subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I think them on the whole a very extraordinary production.
Sivu 130 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Sivu 84 - Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy, and considered that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horror than seems now to attend it.