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... give ; Beauty lives a day , and dies ; Honor lulls us while we live ; Mirth's a cheat , and pleasure flies . Is there nothing worth our care ? Time , and chance , and death our foes ; If our joys so fleeting are , Are we only tied to ...
... give ; Beauty lives a day , and dies ; Honor lulls us while we live ; Mirth's a cheat , and pleasure flies . Is there nothing worth our care ? Time , and chance , and death our foes ; If our joys so fleeting are , Are we only tied to ...
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... give , Or can on earth be found . LESSON EIGHTH . Porus and Alexander . Porus , after having performed all the duty both of a soldier and a general , and fought with incredible bravery , seeing all his horse defeated , and the greater ...
... give , Or can on earth be found . LESSON EIGHTH . Porus and Alexander . Porus , after having performed all the duty both of a soldier and a general , and fought with incredible bravery , seeing all his horse defeated , and the greater ...
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... give their labors greater stability . They placed three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait , some of them having three banks of oars , and others fifty oars apiece . They then cast large anchors , on both sides , into the water ...
... give their labors greater stability . They placed three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait , some of them having three banks of oars , and others fifty oars apiece . They then cast large anchors , on both sides , into the water ...
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... to negotiate an honorable peace , I am ready to give as much gold and silver as will raise thee above the richest citizen of Rome ; being fully persuaded that no expense can 28 JUVENILE COMPANION . Pyrrhus and Fabricius.
... to negotiate an honorable peace , I am ready to give as much gold and silver as will raise thee above the richest citizen of Rome ; being fully persuaded that no expense can 28 JUVENILE COMPANION . Pyrrhus and Fabricius.
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... give ; They lack , I lend ; they pine , I live . wwwwwww LESSON NINETEENTH . Beauty and Virtue . Where does beauty chiefly lie , In the heart , or in the eye ? Which doth yield us greatest pleasure Outward charms or inward treasure ...
... give ; They lack , I lend ; they pine , I live . wwwwwww LESSON NINETEENTH . Beauty and Virtue . Where does beauty chiefly lie , In the heart , or in the eye ? Which doth yield us greatest pleasure Outward charms or inward treasure ...
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Page 74 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 106 - Several of our Young People were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the Woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build a Cabin, take a Deer, or kill an Enemy, spoke our Language imperfectly; were therefore neither fit for Hunters, Warriors, or Counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the...
Page 93 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 36 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 64 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes! From different natures marvellously mixed, Connection exquisite of distant worlds! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Page 70 - He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitteriug all his state.
Page 120 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, — For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, — And thou must die.
Page 154 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 28 - Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo, thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring.