A Guide to English Composition, Or One Hundred and Twenty Subjects Analysed ...C.S. Francis and Company, 1854 |
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... habits of bees , ants , birds , coral insects , & c . , will suggest nume- rous points of illustration to the youngest child , and the jotting of these will rapidly develop the mind , exercise ingenuity , provoke knowledge , and teach ...
... habits of bees , ants , birds , coral insects , & c . , will suggest nume- rous points of illustration to the youngest child , and the jotting of these will rapidly develop the mind , exercise ingenuity , provoke knowledge , and teach ...
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... Habit is second Nature · XXV . A Man is known by his Companions XXVI . Virtue is its own Reward XXVII . Vice brings its own Punishment XXVIII . A wounded Reputation is seldom cured XXIX . A good Cause makes a stout Heart Page . 66 69 73 ...
... Habit is second Nature · XXV . A Man is known by his Companions XXVI . Virtue is its own Reward XXVII . Vice brings its own Punishment XXVIII . A wounded Reputation is seldom cured XXIX . A good Cause makes a stout Heart Page . 66 69 73 ...
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... habit or instinct of the mind , we associate the craft of an operative with one kind of dress , the rank of a gentleman with another , and the sobriety of a student with a third . Thus the dress becomes associated in the mind with ...
... habit or instinct of the mind , we associate the craft of an operative with one kind of dress , the rank of a gentleman with another , and the sobriety of a student with a third . Thus the dress becomes associated in the mind with ...
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... fine birds . Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy , But not expressed in fancy ; rich but not gaudy : For the apparel oft proclaims the man . - Shakspeare . Men judge of the nature and qualities of things by 46 THEME XIV .
... fine birds . Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy , But not expressed in fancy ; rich but not gaudy : For the apparel oft proclaims the man . - Shakspeare . Men judge of the nature and qualities of things by 46 THEME XIV .
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... habits and the spirit of their mind : It is needless to add , that those who do not even care to improve , but rather despise in- struction , cannot be expected to make the same progress in literature as those who value and earnestly ...
... habits and the spirit of their mind : It is needless to add , that those who do not even care to improve , but rather despise in- struction , cannot be expected to make the same progress in literature as those who value and earnestly ...
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1ST REASON 2ND REASON 3RD REASON 4TH REASON action ancient beautiful better blessed body Catiline cheerful Cicero classical companions CONCLUSION conscience contented corrupted cultivation danger death deceived Deioces delight disease doth dress earth employment evil excite exercise fable Faliscans favour fear feel fire folly fool foolish give gold Greek habit hand happiness hath heart HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS honest honour idle INTRODUCTION judgment Julius Cæsar king labour living Lord Bacon man's ment mental Milo of Crotona mind moral Nabal nature never nihil pain passions person pleasure pride Prov proverbs punishment quæ quam QUOTATIONS REASON.-A REASON.-Every REASON.-It REASON.-The rich righteous Romans salt Samnites says Shakspeare Siculi SIMILES sorrow soul spirit suffered sweet taste temper thee THEME things thou shalt thought tree Trojan war truth unto vice Virgil virtue whole wicked wisdom wise words
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Page 369 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 198 - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Page 369 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 273 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 82 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 98 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : 15 "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Page 240 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page 179 - From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 394 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...