Letters on the Improvement of the MindJohn Sharpe, 1821 - 161 páginas |
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Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady Mrs. Chapone (Hester) Visualização completa - 1819 |
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acquainted admiration advantage Æneid Æsop affection agreeable amongst ancient authority beauty behaviour better blessed book of Chronicles book of Judges book of Kings called character Christ Christian command consider conversation dear degree delight desire Deûm divine doctrine duty elegance endeavour English entertainment evil excellent father faults friendship give happiness hath heart heathen Hesiod HESTER CHAPONE honour human ignorant improve indulged innocent Jews judgment Julius Cæsar kind kingdom of Judah knowledge laws learning liberty live mankind manner means ment mind moral nations nature necessary never object obliged observation occasion passion perhaps person pleasure poet principles proper racter reason recommend religion Roger North Roman Roman republic rule scholar Scripture sense sentiments society spect spirit suppose temper thing tion true truth understanding vanity virtue Voltaire whilst wish words writers young
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Página 49 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Página 63 - If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him: for some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. And there is a friend who being turned to enmity and strife, will discover thy reproach.
Página 105 - I could, and discover the causes of the distemper ; but it is easier to say what it is not, than what it is.
Página 76 - And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion : and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Página 36 - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Página 49 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ? for ye shall speak into the air.
Página 90 - which has the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come.
Página 63 - A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord shall find him. Whoso feareth the Lord shall direct his friendship aright; for as he is, so shall his neighbour (that is, his friend) be also.
Página 115 - ... crescant ut opes, ut maxima toto nostra sit area foro. sed nulla aconita bibuntur 25 fictilibus: tune ilia time, cum pocula sumes gemmata et lato Setinum ardebit in auro.
Página 67 - ... not get him again. Follow after him no more, for he is too far off ; he is as a roe escaped out of the snare. As for a wound, it may be bound up, and after reviling there may be reconciliation ; but he that bewrayeth secrets, is without hope.