The American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking, Designed for the Use of SchoolsManning and Loring, 1811 - 228 Seiten |
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... minds of children , he has not given place to romantic fiction . Although moral effays have not been neglected ; yet pleafing and interefting ftories , exem- plifying moral virtues , were judged beft calculated to engage the attention ...
... minds of children , he has not given place to romantic fiction . Although moral effays have not been neglected ; yet pleafing and interefting ftories , exem- plifying moral virtues , were judged beft calculated to engage the attention ...
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... their manners , and their minds ; for whatever they are to a certain degree , at eighteen , they will be more lefs fo all the rest of their lives . 2. Nothin 2. Nothing can be of greater service to a young THE AMERICAN PRECEPTOR .
... their manners , and their minds ; for whatever they are to a certain degree , at eighteen , they will be more lefs fo all the rest of their lives . 2. Nothin 2. Nothing can be of greater service to a young THE AMERICAN PRECEPTOR .
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... mind , like the medicinal virtues of the plant , remain in it when all those charms are withered . IQ . There are two confiderations which always em . bitter the heart of an avaricious man : the one is a perpet- ual thirst after more ...
... mind , like the medicinal virtues of the plant , remain in it when all those charms are withered . IQ . There are two confiderations which always em . bitter the heart of an avaricious man : the one is a perpet- ual thirst after more ...
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... mind his own business ; for he , who torments himself with other people's good or ill fortune , will never be at reft . grey 30. To fet about acquiring the habit of meditation and study late in life , is like getting into a go - cart ...
... mind his own business ; for he , who torments himself with other people's good or ill fortune , will never be at reft . grey 30. To fet about acquiring the habit of meditation and study late in life , is like getting into a go - cart ...
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... mind , to fneer at de- crepit old age , or to ridicule any one who is deformed in his perfon or lacketh understanding . Who maketh one to differ from another ? 38. The merciful man is merciful to his beast : and he , who takes pleasure ...
... mind , to fneer at de- crepit old age , or to ridicule any one who is deformed in his perfon or lacketh understanding . Who maketh one to differ from another ? 38. The merciful man is merciful to his beast : and he , who takes pleasure ...
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Seite 36 - 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.
Seite 36 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Seite 16 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Seite 214 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Seite 55 - I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Seite 15 - Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine...
Seite 204 - 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.
Seite 55 - ... my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Seite 16 - And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
Seite 16 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.