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 עמודים |
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עמוד 7
... received as one of inferior parts , but with a gentleman - like behaviour . These are matters worthy your attention ; re- flect on them , and unite modesty to a polite and easy assurance . Adieu . From a Brother at home , to his Sister ...
... received as one of inferior parts , but with a gentleman - like behaviour . These are matters worthy your attention ; re- flect on them , and unite modesty to a polite and easy assurance . Adieu . From a Brother at home , to his Sister ...
עמוד 11
... received from our indulgent parents were absolutely thrown away ; because , through your own misapplication of them , they gave you no real assistance , And pray what measures can I take to relieve you ? Had you made a proper use of ...
... received from our indulgent parents were absolutely thrown away ; because , through your own misapplication of them , they gave you no real assistance , And pray what measures can I take to relieve you ? Had you made a proper use of ...
עמוד 12
... receiving all reasonable assist- ance from Your affectionate Brother . From a Gentleman to his Son , against Loquacity . DEAR CHARLES , THERE is something in your behaviour , since your return from London , which is unpleasant to me ...
... receiving all reasonable assist- ance from Your affectionate Brother . From a Gentleman to his Son , against Loquacity . DEAR CHARLES , THERE is something in your behaviour , since your return from London , which is unpleasant to me ...
עמוד 20
... RECEIVED your letter , and , though I have failed to answer it before , my prayers and best wishes have constantly attended you . I trust you have the good fortune to please where you are , as I hear nothing to the contrary . If you are ...
... RECEIVED your letter , and , though I have failed to answer it before , my prayers and best wishes have constantly attended you . I trust you have the good fortune to please where you are , as I hear nothing to the contrary . If you are ...
עמוד 26
... receiving a letter from the gentle- man , if it should seem improper to grant him a personal interview . " Discountenance , with disdain , such officious meddlers , and assure them that you are positively determined to listen to no ...
... receiving a letter from the gentle- man , if it should seem improper to grant him a personal interview . " Discountenance , with disdain , such officious meddlers , and assure them that you are positively determined to listen to no ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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
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עמוד 93 - 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...
עמוד lvii - ... 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.
עמוד vii - 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...
עמוד 143 - 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.
עמוד 74 - 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.
עמוד xv - 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?
עמוד 157 - 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.
עמוד 144 - 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.
עמוד 130 - 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.
עמוד 84 - 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.