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... mean the current speech of intelligent and educated people , differs only slightly from that of Great Britain . These instances of divergence are due , sometimes , to survivals of words or idioms that have now passed out of the British ...
... mean the current speech of intelligent and educated people , differs only slightly from that of Great Britain . These instances of divergence are due , sometimes , to survivals of words or idioms that have now passed out of the British ...
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... mean way of preparing so great Entertainments , to Reproach the Invitation . § 3. It is the History of these PROTESTANTS , that is here at- tempted : PROTESTANTS that highly honoured and affected The Church of ENGLAND , and humbly ...
... mean way of preparing so great Entertainments , to Reproach the Invitation . § 3. It is the History of these PROTESTANTS , that is here at- tempted : PROTESTANTS that highly honoured and affected The Church of ENGLAND , and humbly ...
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... means by which he succeeded in the great aim of literature . Edwards is an ex- ample of the power of unrhetorical rhetoric . His most marked rhetorical means were negative : he instinctively avoided what was likely to stand between him ...
... means by which he succeeded in the great aim of literature . Edwards is an ex- ample of the power of unrhetorical rhetoric . His most marked rhetorical means were negative : he instinctively avoided what was likely to stand between him ...
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... mean time , singing forth , with a low voice , my contempla- tions of the Creator and Redeemer . And scarce anything , among all the works of nature , was as sweet to me as thunder and light- ning ; formerly , nothing had been so ...
... mean time , singing forth , with a low voice , my contempla- tions of the Creator and Redeemer . And scarce anything , among all the works of nature , was as sweet to me as thunder and light- ning ; formerly , nothing had been so ...
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... mean esteem of God . Men are ready to entertain a good esteem of those with whom they are friends : they are apt to think highly of their qualities , to give them their due praises ; and if there be defects , to cover them . But those ...
... mean esteem of God . Men are ready to entertain a good esteem of those with whom they are friends : they are apt to think highly of their qualities , to give them their due praises ; and if there be defects , to cover them . But those ...
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Página 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Página 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Página 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Página 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Página 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Página 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Página 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 36 - 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.