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adjective Adverb beauty benevolence buziness censure Cicero cises conduct dangers disappointments distress duty earth employed esteem evil examples exemplify the notes Exercises false favour folly friends give governed Grammar happiness heart honour hope human imperfect tense improve indicative mood infinitive mood king knowledge labours language learner less light to spring live manner means ment mind mood nature ness neuter gender never nominative notes and observations nouns objects observations under RULE omitted Orthography ourselves parsing participle passions peace PERSPICUITY pleasure plural number possess preposition present tense primeval dark principles PRIVA Promiscuous pronoun prudence racter regular verb relative pronoun religion render reward rich Rules 30 Rules of Syntax SECT sentiments silent e singular number spring from primeval studies subjunctive mood substantive temper tences things third person tical tion to-morrow true verb vice virtuous whic wise words youth
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Page 26 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 135 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 26 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 26 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 136 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 137 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 26 - Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 44 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 27 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 124 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.