A Guide to English Composition, Or One Hundred and Twenty Subjects Analysed ...

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C.S. Francis and Company, 1854
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Evil Examples are like pestilential Diseases
25
Employment is the Salt of Life
28
The greatest Events are often drawn by Hairs
32
Mental Stimulus is necessary for bodily Exercise
36
Knowledge is Power
40
If you wish to give your Talents fair Play dress well
44
Honesty is the best Policy Part I
47
He who is honest from Policy is not an honest Man Part II
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A little Straw shows which way the Wind blows
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Mental Cultivation conduces to both Health and Happiness
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Order is needful for improvement
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None are completely happy
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XXL Resist the beginnings of Evil
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention
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Pride is the Bane of Happiness
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Habit is second Nature
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A Man is known by his Companions
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Virtue is its own Reward
91
Vice brings its own Punishment
95
A wounded Reputation is seldom cured
100
A good Cause makes a stout Heart
103
Contentment is the true Philosophers Stone
107
Take care of the Pence and the Pounds will take care of themselves
111
Idle young Men make needy old ones
115
A soft Auswer turneth away Wrath
119
Every Bird is known by his Note
125
A slow Fire makes sweet Malt
129
It is dangerous to play with edged Tools
132
Too much Familiarity breeds Contempt
135
The Cross of Vice is far heavier than that of Virtue
140
Endeavour to be what you would seem to be
144
The Love of Money is the Root of all Evil
149
The Middle Station of Life is most favourable to Virtue and Happiness
154
The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning
159
A Classical is far superior to a mere English Education
163
Works of Taste have a social Benefit on Man
169
Why should a whole Class be turned down when one or Two Boys of it do not know the appointed Lesson? Part I Pro
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know the appointed Lesson ? Part II
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PART II
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The Ideal affords more Pleasure than the Real
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The second Blow makes the Fray
188
Cleanliness is a Pearl of the first Water
191
The Fruits of Labour are sweeter than the Gifts of Fortune
193
The Evils we bring on ourselves are more bitter than those which are laid upon us
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LII Ye are the Salt of the Earth
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Poetry and wellconducted Periodicals are not with out their Uses
201
The Study of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy is attended with incalculable Advantages
204
Luxury destroys both Independence and Liberty
209
Learning conduces to moral and private Virtues
212
Refinement is a national Benefit
215
Family Disagreements are injurious to Morals as well as to Happiness
218
To be good is to be happy
221
A rolling Stone gathers no Moss
224
Little Neglect may breed great Mischief
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Use Pleasures moderately and they will last the longer
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He who makes mention of an old Offence separates Friends
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Only a Fool turns aside to Deceit
235
Avoid Extremes
238
Enjoyment consists in Action more than in Possession
241
It is hard for an empty Bag to stand upright
243
It is not lawful to do Evil that Good may come
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Study to mind your own Business Part I
272
Study to mind your own Business and not anothers Part II
274
The Commandments of God are not grievous
277
Set not your Affections on Things below
280
Anger is temporary Madness
283
Be merciful
286
Hunger is the best Sauce
290
A blithe Heart makes a blooming Visage
292
Slander always leaves a Slur
294
By others Faults wise Men correct their own
296
He that hath Pity on the Poor lendeth to the Lord
297
Fools make a mock of Sin
299
Prosperity is a stronger Trial of Virtue than Adversity
300
Envy is Rottenness of the Bones
303
A righteous Man regardeth the Life of his Beast
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He that oppresseth the Poor reproacheth his Maker
307
A Fault confessed is half redressed
309
Charity hopeth all Things and is kind
310
Necessity has no Law
312
A guilty Conscience is the worst Accuser
314
Swear not at all
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Learning is better than House and Land
319
Keep the Sabbath holy
321
Never contend about Trifles
323
Ye are the light of the World
325
The Righteous is more excellent than his Neigh bour 827
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No Friend like the Friend of Publicans and Sinners 830
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Prosperity gains Friends
333
All Work and no Play makes Jack a dull Boy
337
The Face is an Index of the Mind
339
Science the Handmaid of Religion
342
CVIIL The more you have the more you desire
347
Be sure your Sin will find you out
349
Fortune favours the Brave
352
Follow not a Multitude to do evil
354
Religion makes the Mind cheerful and happy
356
CXIII Are ye not much better than they
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Those who covet earnestly the best Gifts will not covet Riches
361
Love thy Neighbour as thyself
366
Example more powerful than Precept
370
Every Creature of God is good
373
CXVIIL A good name is better than precious Ointment
376
Selfpraise is no Commendation
379
CXX The Blessings of God outweigh the Penalties of Sin
383
OXXL No place like Home
389
PART IV
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Favours bestowed readily are doubly welcome
397
got ill spent
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Opportunity makes the Thief
399
Strength is increased by Concord
400
Kindness begets Kindness
401
Where there is a Will there is a Way ib CXLIV The sweetest wine makes the tartest Vinegar
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CXLVIII Never entrust to another what you can do yourself
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A Bird in the Hand is worth Two in the Bush
404
The Burnt Child dreads Fire
405
IIe who wants to beat his Dog may soon find a Stick ib CLX Economy is the Philosophers Stone
406
Practical Jokes are vulgar ib CLXIV Sbort Reckonings make long Friends
407
Time brings all Things to Light ib CLXIX Never wear a brown Hat n Friesland
408

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5TH REASON action acts affections ancient Bacon beautiful become better body bring brought called carried cause Cicero classical companions compared CONCLUSION contented cultivated danger death delight desire destroy dress earth evil excite exercise fable fall familiar fear feel fire give gold habit hand happiness hath heart HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS honest honour idle INTRODUCTION judgment king labour learning less light living Lord lost man's means mental mind moral nature needful never object once pain passions person pleasure poor present pride produces Prov proverb punishment REASON REASON.-It Reason.—The rich Roman says Shakspeare SIMILES soon spirit strength subjects suffer taste temper thee THEME things thou thought tree truth turned unto Vice virtue waste whole wicked wisdom wise

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Seite 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.
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Seite 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.
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Seite 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.
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TitelA Guide to English Composition, Or One Hundred and Twenty Subjects Analysed ...
Autor/inEbenezer Cobham Brewer
VerlagC.S. Francis and Company, 1854
Original vonHarvard University
Digitalisiert16. Apr. 2008
  
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