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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1 - 5 találat összesen 34 találatból.
xiii. oldal
... perhaps from some distant analogy they may be supposed to have to the different sexes ; thus , a ship , a church , a city , & c . are used as fe- minines ; the sun , death , & c . as masculines . There are five different ways of ...
... perhaps from some distant analogy they may be supposed to have to the different sexes ; thus , a ship , a church , a city , & c . are used as fe- minines ; the sun , death , & c . as masculines . There are five different ways of ...
4. oldal
... perhaps let you have , you will have a very curious calculation , which you are qualified to consider , to shew that Noah's ark was capable of holding all the known animals of the world , with provision for all the time in which the ...
... perhaps let you have , you will have a very curious calculation , which you are qualified to consider , to shew that Noah's ark was capable of holding all the known animals of the world , with provision for all the time in which the ...
10. oldal
... perhaps think it proper to give me an account ; and of work , unless I under- stood it better , it will be of no great use to say much ; but books and company will always supply you with materials for your letters to me , as I shall ...
... perhaps think it proper to give me an account ; and of work , unless I under- stood it better , it will be of no great use to say much ; but books and company will always supply you with materials for your letters to me , as I shall ...
25. oldal
... perhaps , the tools of sharpers and fortune - hunters - the betrayers of female innocence . According to the general custom of these gentry , it may be represented to you , " that some gentleman of importance is deeply smitten with you ...
... perhaps , the tools of sharpers and fortune - hunters - the betrayers of female innocence . According to the general custom of these gentry , it may be represented to you , " that some gentleman of importance is deeply smitten with you ...
35. oldal
... perhaps , will scarcely forgive , though it proceeds from the most generous motives , and is intended to secure you , and yours , that happiness , which I think you deserve . I was at the play last night , with your lady , and the rest ...
... perhaps , will scarcely forgive , though it proceeds from the most generous motives , and is intended to secure you , and yours , that happiness , which I think you deserve . I was at the play last night , with your lady , and the rest ...
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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.