Classical English Letter-writer: Or, Epistolary Selections; Designed to Improve Young Persons in the Art of Letter-writing, and in the Principles of Virtue and Piety. With Introductory Rules and Observations on Epistolary Composition; and Biographical Notices of the Writers from Whom the Letters are Selected ...T. Wilson, 1814 - 368 strani |
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Stran ix
... conversation . II . Before you begin a letter , especially when it is on any occasion of importance , weigh well in your own mind the design and purport of it ; and consider , very atten tively , what sentiments are most proper for you ...
... conversation . II . Before you begin a letter , especially when it is on any occasion of importance , weigh well in your own mind the design and purport of it ; and consider , very atten tively , what sentiments are most proper for you ...
Stran xi
... conversation ; but much more so in letters because , writing allows an opportunity for consideration , which renders error of every kind more in- excusable ; and what is written usually makes a stronger and more permanent impression ...
... conversation ; but much more so in letters because , writing allows an opportunity for consideration , which renders error of every kind more in- excusable ; and what is written usually makes a stronger and more permanent impression ...
Stran xiv
... Conversation admits of every style but the poetic ; and what are letters but written conversation ? The great rule is , to follow nature , and to avoid an affected manner . " 1 V. Scrupulously adhere to the rules of grammar . Select and ...
... Conversation admits of every style but the poetic ; and what are letters but written conversation ? The great rule is , to follow nature , and to avoid an affected manner . " 1 V. Scrupulously adhere to the rules of grammar . Select and ...
Stran 4
... conversation at Sandleford , of which she Mrs. Arbuthnot , the subject of this letter , was the daughter of a minister of the episcopal church of Scotland . She married , at the age of twenty eight , captain Andrew Arbuthnot , master of ...
... conversation at Sandleford , of which she Mrs. Arbuthnot , the subject of this letter , was the daughter of a minister of the episcopal church of Scotland . She married , at the age of twenty eight , captain Andrew Arbuthnot , master of ...
Stran 28
... . Sir Matthew Hale to his children . - On conversation . Dear children , I thank God I came well to Farring- ton this day , about five o'clock . And as I have some leisure time at my inn , I cannot spend it 28 . PRECEPTIVE LETTERS .
... . Sir Matthew Hale to his children . - On conversation . Dear children , I thank God I came well to Farring- ton this day , about five o'clock . And as I have some leisure time at my inn , I cannot spend it 28 . PRECEPTIVE LETTERS .
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acquaintance Adieu affection affectionate affliction Alexander Pope Almighty amiable Anna Seward Anti-jacobin Review attention beautiful believe Bennet Langton bishop blessing Carter Catherine Talbot character cheerful Christian comfort conversation Conyers Middleton dear sir death degree delight desire died diligence Doddridge duty elegant Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Rowe endeavour epistolary esteem eternal excellent Eyam faithful father friendship give hand happiness hear heart Heaven honour hope human James Boswell James Hervey kind lady learning LETTER Lichfield lived London lord Lucy Porter melancholy ment mind miss moral mother nature ness never observed occasion pain perhaps piety pious pleased pleasure Pope pray prayers reason received religion Richard Hurd Samuel Johnson sincere soon sorrow spirit suffer sure Talbot tell temper tender thank thing thought tion truth virtue Warburton William Warburton wish write young persons youth
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Stran 141 - ... what is this absorbs me quite steals my senses shuts my sight drowns my...
Stran 228 - This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
Stran 333 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Stran 345 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Stran 263 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good: I made them easily, and and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Stran 221 - 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...
Stran 121 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, or is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair to men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Stran 262 - I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil.
Stran 340 - you shall be my confessor: when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christiau religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Stran 254 - No death since that of my wife has ever oppressed me like this. But let us remember, that we are in the hands of Him who knows when to give and when to take away ; who will look upon us with mercy through all our variations of existence, and who invites us to call on him in the day of trouble. Call upon him in this great revolution of life, and call with confidence.