Five Lessons for Young MenAlfred Southwick, 1837 - 198 من الصفحات |
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... feel disposed to give up the point , or rather controversy , without having at least one more blow at the stage . He accordingly took up his quill and wrote the principal part of this little book- ( having writ- ten the third and fourth ...
... feel disposed to give up the point , or rather controversy , without having at least one more blow at the stage . He accordingly took up his quill and wrote the principal part of this little book- ( having writ- ten the third and fourth ...
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... feel it our duty to state the fact without disguise . When the first Theatre was built in a certain city , the writer was one of the most active promoters of the enterprise . A man who thought more cor- rectly than we then did on the ...
... feel it our duty to state the fact without disguise . When the first Theatre was built in a certain city , the writer was one of the most active promoters of the enterprise . A man who thought more cor- rectly than we then did on the ...
الصفحة 13
... leave behind , those who have not lived long enough to learn scarcely any thing . But if we be all fools , still we are bound to seek wisdom ; and rely upon it , my young readers , if I did not feel an interest in THE THEATRE . 13.
... leave behind , those who have not lived long enough to learn scarcely any thing . But if we be all fools , still we are bound to seek wisdom ; and rely upon it , my young readers , if I did not feel an interest in THE THEATRE . 13.
الصفحة 14
Solomon Southwick. readers , if I did not feel an interest in your prosperity and happiness in life , I should not trouble my old brain to give you this advice ; which the longer you live to become acquainted with the Theatre , the ...
Solomon Southwick. readers , if I did not feel an interest in your prosperity and happiness in life , I should not trouble my old brain to give you this advice ; which the longer you live to become acquainted with the Theatre , the ...
الصفحة 20
... feel the impiety of it . Is it not more likely that most of them would leave the Theatre with notions in their heads , entirely at war with the sound notions that belong to a christian education . For the same reason that it is ...
... feel the impiety of it . Is it not more likely that most of them would leave the Theatre with notions in their heads , entirely at war with the sound notions that belong to a christian education . For the same reason that it is ...
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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.