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... continual indul- gence , all our passions will become mutinous and headstrong . Desire , not reason , will be the ruling principle of our conduct . Absurdly we spend our time in contending about the trifles of a day , while we ought to ...
... continual indul- gence , all our passions will become mutinous and headstrong . Desire , not reason , will be the ruling principle of our conduct . Absurdly we spend our time in contending about the trifles of a day , while we ought to ...
Page 41
... continually have the gaol in our view , which would direct us in the race . The goals were forced open , and the prisoners set free . It cannot be said that we are charitible doners , when our gifts proceed from selfish motives ...
... continually have the gaol in our view , which would direct us in the race . The goals were forced open , and the prisoners set free . It cannot be said that we are charitible doners , when our gifts proceed from selfish motives ...
Page 59
... continual endeavours to serve us , notwithstanding our ingratitude . It is indisputably true his assertion , though it is a paradox . 11. Ah ! unhappy thee , who art deaf to the calls of duty , and of honour . Oh ! happy we , surrounded ...
... continual endeavours to serve us , notwithstanding our ingratitude . It is indisputably true his assertion , though it is a paradox . 11. Ah ! unhappy thee , who art deaf to the calls of duty , and of honour . Oh ! happy we , surrounded ...
Page 71
... continual endeavours to serve us , notwithstanding our ingratitude . It is indisputably true his assertion , though it is a paradox . 11. Ah ! unhappy thee , who art deaf to the calls of duty , and of honour . Oh ! happy we , surrounded ...
... continual endeavours to serve us , notwithstanding our ingratitude . It is indisputably true his assertion , though it is a paradox . 11. Ah ! unhappy thee , who art deaf to the calls of duty , and of honour . Oh ! happy we , surrounded ...
Page 79
... continually to be at work . The heavenly bodies are in motion perpetually . Having not known , or having not considered , the measures proposed , he failed of success . My opinion was given on rather a cursory perusal of the book . It ...
... continually to be at work . The heavenly bodies are in motion perpetually . Having not known , or having not considered , the measures proposed , he failed of success . My opinion was given on rather a cursory perusal of the book . It ...
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acquainted with objects adjective adverb agree appear attention beauty benevolence blamable blessings brother censure CHAP conduct conference Conjugate the following dangers and labours Demosthenes disappointments duty earth endeavoured esteem evil examples are adapted exer Exercises favour following verbs folly gism governed Grammar happy HARVARD COLLEGE heart honour hope human imperative mood improve indicative mood infinitive mood JANUARY 25 king knowledge language learner light to spring live mind ness never nominative notes and observations nouns observations under RULE omitted ourselves Parsing Parsing Table passions peace perfect tenses perpetual piety pleasure plural number possess preposition present primeval dark principle proper reason receive render reward riches riety Rules of Syntax SECT sentences sentiments singular number spring from primeval subjunctive mood substantive temper tences tense thee things third person Thou art vice virtue virtue rewards virtuous wise words Write the following youth
Popular passages
Page 97 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Page 91 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 18 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 17 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 17 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 89 - No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics given, T...
Page 91 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 91 - Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul, And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the general frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Page 86 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Page 91 - See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good untaught will find : Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God ; Pursues that chain which links th...