A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and intr. sketches by R. DemausRobert Demaus 1859 |
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... once mark of exercises for the scholar with whi be both pleasing and of immediate use . Each Lesson is accompanied by a set of questions ( numbered for facility of reference ) constructed with the special view of leading the pupil into ...
... once mark of exercises for the scholar with whi be both pleasing and of immediate use . Each Lesson is accompanied by a set of questions ( numbered for facility of reference ) constructed with the special view of leading the pupil into ...
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... once a - year to Amaurot , to consult about the common concerns ; for that is the chief town of the island , and being situated near the centre of it , it is the most convenient place for their assemblies . The jurisdiction of every ...
... once a - year to Amaurot , to consult about the common concerns ; for that is the chief town of the island , and being situated near the centre of it , it is the most convenient place for their assemblies . The jurisdiction of every ...
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... once a - month , upon a festival day . When the time of harvest comes , the magistrates in the country send to those in the towns , letting them know how many hands they shall need for reaping the harvest ; and the number they call for ...
... once a - month , upon a festival day . When the time of harvest comes , the magistrates in the country send to those in the towns , letting them know how many hands they shall need for reaping the harvest ; and the number they call for ...
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... once engaged in labour , but grow afterwards unable to follow it , than there is elsewhere of those that continue still employed . I would gladly hear any man compare the justice that is among them with that of all other nations , among ...
... once engaged in labour , but grow afterwards unable to follow it , than there is elsewhere of those that continue still employed . I would gladly hear any man compare the justice that is among them with that of all other nations , among ...
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... once see the sign of the skin in England . 2. AGAINST COVETOUSNESS . God will not allow a king too much , will He then allow a subject too much ? No ; that He will not . Have any men here in Eng- land too much ? I doubt most rich men ...
... once see the sign of the skin in England . 2. AGAINST COVETOUSNESS . God will not allow a king too much , will He then allow a subject too much ? No ; that He will not . Have any men here in Eng- land too much ? I doubt most rich men ...
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Page 195 - Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Page 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 79 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 324 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Page 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 110 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 71 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Page 463 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.