Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key1839 |
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... appear every where around us ! what a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth in the face of nature ! what a magnificent spectacle presented to the view of man ! what a supply contrived for his wants ! On whom does time hang so ...
... appear every where around us ! what a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth in the face of nature ! what a magnificent spectacle presented to the view of man ! what a supply contrived for his wants ! On whom does time hang so ...
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... appears so . IV . Every thing connected with self , is apt to appear desireable in our eyes . Errors are more excuseable in ignorant than in well- instructed persons . We were made to be servicable to others , as 5 well as to ourselves ...
... appears so . IV . Every thing connected with self , is apt to appear desireable in our eyes . Errors are more excuseable in ignorant than in well- instructed persons . We were made to be servicable to others , as 5 well as to ourselves ...
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... appear the greater . It is a safer and easier course frankly to acknowledge them . A man owns that he is ignorant ; we admire his modesty . He says he is old ; we scarcely think him so . He declares himself poor ; we do not believe it ...
... appear the greater . It is a safer and easier course frankly to acknowledge them . A man owns that he is ignorant ; we admire his modesty . He says he is old ; we scarcely think him so . He declares himself poor ; we do not believe it ...
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... appears to be so . The horse , quadruped , beautiful , most , appears . A noun which refers to the largeness or smallness of the horse ? Size . A noun applicable to his skin 3 Smoothness . A noun ap- plicable to his motions ? Ease . A ...
... appears to be so . The horse , quadruped , beautiful , most , appears . A noun which refers to the largeness or smallness of the horse ? Size . A noun applicable to his skin 3 Smoothness . A noun ap- plicable to his motions ? Ease . A ...
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Alexander Reid. Of all quadrupeds the horse appears to be the most beautiful . His fine size , the glossy smoothness of his skin , the graceful ease of his motions , and the exact symmetry of his shape , entitle him to this distinction ...
Alexander Reid. Of all quadrupeds the horse appears to be the most beautiful . His fine size , the glossy smoothness of his skin , the graceful ease of his motions , and the exact symmetry of his shape , entitle him to this distinction ...
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Page 108 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 22 - All our conduct towards men should be influenced by this important precept " Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Page 112 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page 51 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 66 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Page 113 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 34 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 72 - mongst other matter, Of the Chameleon's form and nature. ' A stranger animal,' cries one, ' Sure never lived beneath the sun : A lizard's body lean and long, A fish's head, a serpent's tongue, Its foot with triple claw disjoined ; And what a length of tail behind ! How slow its pace ! and then its hue — Who ever saw so fine a blue?"
Page 11 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 112 - I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes, legislators, and patriots, of every age and country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable issue, of enjoying their eternal repose. Enjoy that repose, illustrious immortals...