Five Lessons for Young MenAlfred Southwick, 1837 - 198 من الصفحات |
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... vice and cor- ruption , the Theatre ; against which it is the sa- cred duty of every father of a family , every ho- nest man , and every sincere christian , to raise his voice or his pen , or both , till the nuisance . be thoroughly ...
... vice and cor- ruption , the Theatre ; against which it is the sa- cred duty of every father of a family , every ho- nest man , and every sincere christian , to raise his voice or his pen , or both , till the nuisance . be thoroughly ...
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... vice ? Could he not , in short , have done some- thing towards improving the barbarous condi- tion of his country ; for , although she was final- ly overrun and her government and power sub- verted by barbarians , still she was as ...
... vice ? Could he not , in short , have done some- thing towards improving the barbarous condi- tion of his country ; for , although she was final- ly overrun and her government and power sub- verted by barbarians , still she was as ...
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... vice in all its deformity ? And as do not true check it ? Vice is a monster of so hideous mien That to be hated , needs but to be seen , representations of it on the stage serve to repress and NIMROD . In reply to Nimrod , I wrote the ...
... vice in all its deformity ? And as do not true check it ? Vice is a monster of so hideous mien That to be hated , needs but to be seen , representations of it on the stage serve to repress and NIMROD . In reply to Nimrod , I wrote the ...
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... vice from every vicious scene ; and sometimes , I grant , a mind disposed to virtue may have its good disposition strengthened by the sight of vice ; but this is a dangerous experiment to make upon young minds , ignorant of the world ...
... vice from every vicious scene ; and sometimes , I grant , a mind disposed to virtue may have its good disposition strengthened by the sight of vice ; but this is a dangerous experiment to make upon young minds , ignorant of the world ...
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Solomon Southwick. And I believe it will not be denied , that there is vice enough always to be seen at every theatrical exhibition , to lead at least a score of weak- minded or inexperienced young men and boys into the broad road to ...
Solomon Southwick. And I believe it will not be denied , that there is vice enough always to be seen at every theatrical exhibition , to lead at least a score of weak- minded or inexperienced young men and boys into the broad road to ...
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الصفحة 26 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (and that there is all Nature cries aloud through all her works,) he must delight in virtue; and that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 28 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age. and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
الصفحة 164 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
الصفحة 27 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
الصفحة 16 - My name is Norval ! on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks : a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
الصفحة 119 - Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will...
الصفحة 35 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
الصفحة 119 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
الصفحة 86 - How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid...
الصفحة 196 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.