A Guide to English Composition, Or One Hundred and Twenty Subjects Analysed ...C.S. Francis and Company, 1854 |
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Pàgina 19
... truth : " ( 3. ) Because it has a bad name . Almost all other sins are tolerated by the world , and often even admired ; but a liar is always contemptible , and always despised : ( 4. ) Because it carries its own punishment , in the ...
... truth : " ( 3. ) Because it has a bad name . Almost all other sins are tolerated by the world , and often even admired ; but a liar is always contemptible , and always despised : ( 4. ) Because it carries its own punishment , in the ...
Pàgina 21
... truth . " A lie has no legs , but scandalous wings . He who tells a lie needs twenty others to make it good . Truth is always consistent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out : It is always near at hand , and sits upon our lips ...
... truth . " A lie has no legs , but scandalous wings . He who tells a lie needs twenty others to make it good . Truth is always consistent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out : It is always near at hand , and sits upon our lips ...
Pàgina 50
... truth , ” said Goldsmith , " I think so too , " and instantly returned the note , begging the publisher " to pay him out of the profits of the sale . " The publisher complied with the request , and soon handed him a cheque for 4507 ...
... truth , ” said Goldsmith , " I think so too , " and instantly returned the note , begging the publisher " to pay him out of the profits of the sale . " The publisher complied with the request , and soon handed him a cheque for 4507 ...
Pàgina 58
... . QUOTATIONS . Many a truth is spoken in jest . Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh . Daylight will peep through a very small hole . Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong 58 THEME XVII .
... . QUOTATIONS . Many a truth is spoken in jest . Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh . Daylight will peep through a very small hole . Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong 58 THEME XVII .
Pàgina 87
... truth and virtue . - Jeremy Bentham . Nature is a kind of schoolmaster ; custom , a magistrate . -Lord Bacon . L'abito e una seconda natura . Vetustatis et consuetudinis vis maxima est . - Cicero . Consuetudo quovis tyranno potentior ...
... truth and virtue . - Jeremy Bentham . Nature is a kind of schoolmaster ; custom , a magistrate . -Lord Bacon . L'abito e una seconda natura . Vetustatis et consuetudinis vis maxima est . - Cicero . Consuetudo quovis tyranno potentior ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 369 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Pàgina 198 - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Pàgina 369 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Pàgina 330 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Pàgina 273 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Pàgina 82 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Pàgina 98 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : 15 "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Pàgina 240 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Pàgina 179 - From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Pàgina 394 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...