The Young Man's Book of Classical Letters: Consisting of Epistolary Selections; Designed to Improve Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Art of Letter-writing ... with Introductory Rules and Observations on Epistolary CompositionGrigg & Elliot, 1841 - 320 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 17
... least degree of insincerity under the notion of a compliment ; which , as far as it deserves to be practised by a man of probity , is only the most civil and obliging way of saying what we really mean : whoever employs it otherwise ...
... least degree of insincerity under the notion of a compliment ; which , as far as it deserves to be practised by a man of probity , is only the most civil and obliging way of saying what we really mean : whoever employs it otherwise ...
الصفحة 21
... subject will admit ; and in such terms as are least likely to be misunderstood . Avoid un- necessary tautology , explanation , and long or fre- quent parentheses . Place the principal circum . stances in OBSERVATIONS . 21.
... subject will admit ; and in such terms as are least likely to be misunderstood . Avoid un- necessary tautology , explanation , and long or fre- quent parentheses . Place the principal circum . stances in OBSERVATIONS . 21.
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... depend too much on your pen ; but accustom yourselves , upon occasion , to write well , or at least legibly , with an indifferent , or even a bad pen . Postscripts have a very awkward appearance ; and they generally 24 RULES AND.
... depend too much on your pen ; but accustom yourselves , upon occasion , to write well , or at least legibly , with an indifferent , or even a bad pen . Postscripts have a very awkward appearance ; and they generally 24 RULES AND.
الصفحة 33
... least surprised at it , as it is easy to imagine what effects the dangerous state of a deservedly beloved child must have on a heart so exquisitely alive to all the maternal feelings . What a journey of hurry , anxiety , and fatigue you ...
... least surprised at it , as it is easy to imagine what effects the dangerous state of a deservedly beloved child must have on a heart so exquisitely alive to all the maternal feelings . What a journey of hurry , anxiety , and fatigue you ...
الصفحة 36
... least melan- choly in company . She spends so very few hours in her bed , that I cannot imagine how she can be so well ; but her very great activity , both of body and mind , has , humanly speaking , preserved her life . Mrs. Boscawen ...
... least melan- choly in company . She spends so very few hours in her bed , that I cannot imagine how she can be so well ; but her very great activity , both of body and mind , has , humanly speaking , preserved her life . Mrs. Boscawen ...
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acquaintance Adieu admire affection affectionate agreeable ANNA SEWARD answer assure beautiful believe bishop bless border ballads Burke Byron comfort CONYERS MIDDLETON Cowper dear friend dear madam DEAR SIR death desire Edmund Burke EDWARD GIBBON endeavour epistolary esteem express favour feel Franklin friendship give hand happy hear heart HENRY KIRKE WHITE honour hope Horace Walpole humble servant JAMES BEATTIE JAMES THOMSON John Dryden Julius Cæsar kind labour Lady learned less letter live Lord Lord Byron Lord Kilmarnock lordship mean ment mind never night obliged occasion perhaps person pleased pleasure poem pray present reason received remember respect sent sentiments sincere soon sorry spirit sure tell thank thing thought tion town translation Trenton verse virtue Walpole William Cowper wish word write written yesterday young
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الصفحة 155 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
الصفحة 154 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
الصفحة 154 - Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending : but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
الصفحة 47 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures...
الصفحة 318 - He was pleased to coincide, and to dwell on the description of your Jameses as no less royal than poetical. He spoke alternately of Homer and yourself, and seemed well acquainted with hoth ; so that (with the exception of the Turks * and your humble servant) you were in very good company.
الصفحة 254 - The morning after my exit, the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily, and marry as fast, as they were used to do. The memory of man, as it is elegantly expressed in the Wisdom of Solomon, passcth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but one day.
الصفحة 158 - It is like that of a fine organ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end and never equalled, unless perhaps by Virgil.
الصفحة 226 - Almost all the parts of our bodies require some expense. The feet demand shoes ; the legs stockings ; the rest of the body clothing ; and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses. nor fine furniture.
الصفحة 235 - God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.
الصفحة 254 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.