Classical English Letter-writer: Or, Epistolary Selections; Designed to Improve Young Persons in the Art of Letter-writing, and in the Principles of Virtue and Piety. With Introductory Rules and Observations on Epistolary Composition; and Biographical Notices of the Writers from Whom the Letters are Selected ...T. Wilson, 1814 - 368 pagini |
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Pagina xi
... thing , either in letter or in common conversation , that you do not think ; but always let your mind and your words go together , even on the most slight and trivial occasions . Shelter not the least degree of insincerity under the ...
... thing , either in letter or in common conversation , that you do not think ; but always let your mind and your words go together , even on the most slight and trivial occasions . Shelter not the least degree of insincerity under the ...
Pagina xv
... thing he said or wrote , though on the most trivial occasion . " The effusion of a moment " becomes the just characteristic and the highest encomium of all familiar writing , when a habit of accuracy has previously been acquired . VI ...
... thing he said or wrote , though on the most trivial occasion . " The effusion of a moment " becomes the just characteristic and the highest encomium of all familiar writing , when a habit of accuracy has previously been acquired . VI ...
Pagina 1
... thing can reach me , except the noise of thunder , which undoubtedly you have heard too . We have read , in old authors , of high towers levelled by it to the ground , while the humble valleys have escaped . But to let you see that the ...
... thing can reach me , except the noise of thunder , which undoubtedly you have heard too . We have read , in old authors , of high towers levelled by it to the ground , while the humble valleys have escaped . But to let you see that the ...
Pagina 4
... thing in view but her amusement , that if she were at leisure , I would tell her a story . I accordingly began ; and , agreeably to the commission with which you honoured me , I made a very long and circumstantial story of it ...
... thing in view but her amusement , that if she were at leisure , I would tell her a story . I accordingly began ; and , agreeably to the commission with which you honoured me , I made a very long and circumstantial story of it ...
Pagina 8
... thing that concerns me and my family , I take the liberty to inform you , that my son James is dead ; that the last duties to him are now paid ; and that I am endeavouring to return , with the little ability that is left me , and with ...
... thing that concerns me and my family , I take the liberty to inform you , that my son James is dead ; that the last duties to him are now paid ; and that I am endeavouring to return , with the little ability that is left me , and with ...
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Classical English Letter-writer, Or, Epistolary Selections: Designed to ... Vizualizare completă - 1816 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
acquaintance Adieu affection affectionate affliction Alexander Pope Almighty amiable Anna Seward Anti-jacobin Review attention beautiful believe Bennet Langton bishop blessing Carter Catherine Talbot character cheerful Christian comfort conversation Conyers Middleton dear sir death degree delight desire died diligence Doddridge duty elegant Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Rowe endeavour epistolary esteem eternal excellent Eyam faithful father friendship give hand happiness hear heart Heaven honour hope human James Boswell James Hervey kind lady learning LETTER Lichfield lived London lord Lucy Porter melancholy ment mind miss moral mother nature ness never observed occasion pain perhaps piety pious pleased pleasure Pope pray prayers reason received religion Richard Hurd Samuel Johnson sincere soon sorrow spirit suffer sure Talbot tell temper tender thank thing thought tion truth virtue Warburton William Warburton wish write young persons youth
Pasaje populare
Pagina 141 - ... what is this absorbs me quite steals my senses shuts my sight drowns my...
Pagina 228 - This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
Pagina 333 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Pagina 345 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Pagina 263 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good: I made them easily, and and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Pagina 221 - The greatest benefit which one friend can confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues. This, your mother will still perform, if...
Pagina 121 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, or is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair to men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Pagina 262 - I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil.
Pagina 340 - you shall be my confessor: when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christiau religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Pagina 254 - No death since that of my wife has ever oppressed me like this. But let us remember, that we are in the hands of Him who knows when to give and when to take away ; who will look upon us with mercy through all our variations of existence, and who invites us to call on him in the day of trouble. Call upon him in this great revolution of life, and call with confidence.