Five Lessons for Young MenAlfred Southwick, 1837 - 198 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 8
... corruption and ty- ranny , or usurpation , begin , the moment that vi- gilance on the part of the people ceases ; how much worse must be the condition of the people where they are not only kept in gross ignorance of their rights , but ...
... corruption and ty- ranny , or usurpation , begin , the moment that vi- gilance on the part of the people ceases ; how much worse must be the condition of the people where they are not only kept in gross ignorance of their rights , but ...
الصفحة 25
... corrupt and unprin- cipled factions to devour each other , he con- tented himself with doing all the good that he could do , by teaching his philosophy to those who were willing to be benefitted by his in- structions . He did not kill ...
... corrupt and unprin- cipled factions to devour each other , he con- tented himself with doing all the good that he could do , by teaching his philosophy to those who were willing to be benefitted by his in- structions . He did not kill ...
الصفحة 74
... corruption would lead to . Oh ! my young reader , let me entreat you to beware how you take that first step ; for there , believe me , in ninety - nine cases out of a hundred , you cannot stop , unless , which you have no right to ...
... corruption would lead to . Oh ! my young reader , let me entreat you to beware how you take that first step ; for there , believe me , in ninety - nine cases out of a hundred , you cannot stop , unless , which you have no right to ...
الصفحة 77
... corrupt amusements , con- firm their hopes , and blast forever our own glo- rious prospects ! But to go on with the main design of this les- son , CIRCUS is but another term for circle ; and as a circle has no end , it well represents ...
... corrupt amusements , con- firm their hopes , and blast forever our own glo- rious prospects ! But to go on with the main design of this les- son , CIRCUS is but another term for circle ; and as a circle has no end , it well represents ...
الصفحة 82
... ; and moreover , nothing that is acted by the horses or their riders , the clown or the baboons and monkeys , since it is all dumb - show , is so likely to corrupt the morals or manners of the youth who witness it , as 82 THE CIRCUS .
... ; and moreover , nothing that is acted by the horses or their riders , the clown or the baboons and monkeys , since it is all dumb - show , is so likely to corrupt the morals or manners of the youth who witness it , as 82 THE CIRCUS .
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Addison Albany animals ardent spirits Aristophanes become believe biped blessed brute bull-bait Cato cause christian Cicero Circus Circusses civil corrupt Cromwell dissipation divine drunkard drunkenness eternal Europe evil example exhibitions farmer fathers feel folly fools foul genius glorious Greece grins habits happiness heart heathen heaven holy honest hope horse-race horses human idle and vicious illustrious immortal improvement Intemperance John Jay labor least lessons liberty licentious live Lord mankind Mark Antony means ment mind mobocracy moral multitude murdered Napoleon Bonaparte nations nerally never New-York Nimrod patriotism perceive perhaps political Pollok Prince of Orange profession race Race-ground racter republican respectable Roman Senator Rome ruin scenes soul spect stage strong drink temperance Theatre thing thousands tion tragedy truth tyrants vice virtue virtuous weakness wickedness wine wisdom wise Witt young readers youth
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الصفحة 26 - 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.
الصفحة 28 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age. and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
الصفحة 164 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
الصفحة 27 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
الصفحة 16 - My name is Norval ! on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks : a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
الصفحة 119 - Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will...
الصفحة 35 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
الصفحة 119 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
الصفحة 86 - How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid...
الصفحة 196 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.