An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 páginas |
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... respect to use his discretion in extend- ing the Spanish Empire in the New World . In this third voy- age he difcovered the continent of America , at the mouth of ⚫ the river Oronoke . 55. He rectified many diforders in his government ...
... respect to use his discretion in extend- ing the Spanish Empire in the New World . In this third voy- age he difcovered the continent of America , at the mouth of ⚫ the river Oronoke . 55. He rectified many diforders in his government ...
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... respect . 61. But altho the King endeavored to expiate the offense , by cenfuring and recalling Bovadilla , yet we may judge of his fincerity from his appointing Nicholas de Ovando , another bitter enemy of Columbus , to fucceed in the ...
... respect . 61. But altho the King endeavored to expiate the offense , by cenfuring and recalling Bovadilla , yet we may judge of his fincerity from his appointing Nicholas de Ovando , another bitter enemy of Columbus , to fucceed in the ...
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... respect that is paid among na- tions to the law of good faith . If there are cafes in this en- lightened period , when it is violated , there are none when it is decried . It is the philofophy of politics , the religion of governments ...
... respect that is paid among na- tions to the law of good faith . If there are cafes in this en- lightened period , when it is violated , there are none when it is decried . It is the philofophy of politics , the religion of governments ...
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... respect themselves to the obligations of good faith . 8. It is painful , I hope it is fuperfluous , to make even the fuppofition that America fhould furnish the occafion of this opprobium . No , let me not even imagin , that a ...
... respect themselves to the obligations of good faith . 8. It is painful , I hope it is fuperfluous , to make even the fuppofition that America fhould furnish the occafion of this opprobium . No , let me not even imagin , that a ...
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... respect our rights ? Do gentlemen rely on the ftate of peace becaufe both nations will be worfe difpofed to keep it ? Because injuries , and infults still harder to en- dure , will be mutually offered ? 20. Such a state of things will ...
... respect our rights ? Do gentlemen rely on the ftate of peace becaufe both nations will be worfe difpofed to keep it ? Because injuries , and infults still harder to en- dure , will be mutually offered ? 20. Such a state of things will ...
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Página 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
Página 214 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Página 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 190 - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
Página 169 - 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.
Página 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Página 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Página 62 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...