The Secretary, and Complete Letter Writer: Containing a Collection of Letters Upon Most Occasions and Situations in Life. To which is Added, an Essay on Letter WritingKnott & Lloyd, 1803 - 168 oldal |
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lxxii. oldal
... fortune with him . " " As when sharp Boreas blows abroad , and brings The dreary winter on his frozen wings ; Beneath the low hung clouds the sheets of snow Descend , and whiten all the fields below ; So fast the dar's on either army ...
... fortune with him . " " As when sharp Boreas blows abroad , and brings The dreary winter on his frozen wings ; Beneath the low hung clouds the sheets of snow Descend , and whiten all the fields below ; So fast the dar's on either army ...
12. oldal
... fortune you had , with good management , would have afforded you a comfort- able subsistence for life ; whereas you have squan- dered it away in less than two years . Were I able and willing to give you as much more , what reason have I ...
... fortune you had , with good management , would have afforded you a comfort- able subsistence for life ; whereas you have squan- dered it away in less than two years . Were I able and willing to give you as much more , what reason have I ...
20. oldal
... fortune to please where you are , as I hear nothing to the contrary . If you are so happy as to be in favor with the family you serve , I make no question of your continuing in it by a constant endeavour to deserve it . I told you truly ...
... fortune to please where you are , as I hear nothing to the contrary . If you are so happy as to be in favor with the family you serve , I make no question of your continuing in it by a constant endeavour to deserve it . I told you truly ...
24. oldal
... fortunes would be sufficient to place them in a state of inde- pendence . In short , being obliged to quit a busi- ness he had managed with so little prudence , his friends got him on a charitable foundation , which afforded him a bare ...
... fortunes would be sufficient to place them in a state of inde- pendence . In short , being obliged to quit a busi- ness he had managed with so little prudence , his friends got him on a charitable foundation , which afforded him a bare ...
25. oldal
... fortune . You will find some difficulty in doing this , without the assistance of some maturer heads than your own ; therefore make your guardian your confidant in this case , and turn a deaf ear to the insinuations of people who often ...
... fortune . You will find some difficulty in doing this , without the assistance of some maturer heads than your own ; therefore make your guardian your confidant in this case , and turn a deaf ear to the insinuations of people who often ...
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
accusative acquaintance adjective affection affectionate Bedouin brother called could,should dare daugh daughter DEAR SIR death denotes durst duty endeavour esteem evil father formed fortitude fortune friendship FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gentleman give gone Grace happiness heart hope human humble Servant husband IBID IMPERATIVE MOOD INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD Johnson kind learning letter Lord loved Luxembourg Madam Maignet ment mind mother nature never PARTICIPLE passion perhaps person Petrarch placed pleasure Plural POPE POTENTIAL MOOD PRESENT TENSE PRETER PRETERIMPERFECT TENSE PRETERPERFECT PRETERPLUPERFECT TENSE prison pronoun reason received revolutionary revolutionary tribunal right honourable Robespierre scene sense shew shouldest sincere Singular sometimes soothing soul SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantives suffered tears tenderness thing Thou hast Thou mayest Thou mightest Thou shalt tion tribunal Vaucluse verb virtue vowel wife wilt wish words wouldest write young lady your's
Népszerű szakaszok
93. oldal - The greatest benefit which one friend can confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues. This your mother will still perform, if...
lvii. oldal - ... whole The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God and love of man.
vii. oldal - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he prayed and felt for all...
143. oldal - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
74. oldal - I am ignorant of any one quality, that is amiable in a man, which is not equally so in a woman : I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature. Nor do I know one vice or folly, which is not equally detestable in both.
xv. oldal - Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less?
157. oldal - Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting our first thoughts, and endeavour to recommend our opinion by studied ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style.
144. oldal - Burns's poems, and have read them twice ; and though they be written in a language that is new to me, and many of them on subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I think them on the whole a very extraordinary production.
130. oldal - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
84. oldal - Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy, and considered that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horror than seems now to attend it.