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... pride of the matron , the toil of many a winter night , the housewife's stores , whiter than snow , are laid up with fragrant herbs . 9. Softened by prosperity , the rich pity the poor ; disci- plined into order , the poor respect the ...
... pride of the matron , the toil of many a winter night , the housewife's stores , whiter than snow , are laid up with fragrant herbs . 9. Softened by prosperity , the rich pity the poor ; disci- plined into order , the poor respect the ...
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... Pride , Blame , Bless , Caprice , Censure , Caution , Cite , Commune , Conceal , Correct , Reform , Defy , Define , Discover , Elect , Elevate , Fancy , Faction , Fault , Favour , Figure , Form , Fury , Grace , Harm , Humour , Imitate ...
... Pride , Blame , Bless , Caprice , Censure , Caution , Cite , Commune , Conceal , Correct , Reform , Defy , Define , Discover , Elect , Elevate , Fancy , Faction , Fault , Favour , Figure , Form , Fury , Grace , Harm , Humour , Imitate ...
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... pride , the latter produces discontent . 11 . The sun sheds abroad his golden rays , and fills the earth with his vivifying influence . 12. I have no occasion for his services , and am , there- fore , unwilling to receive them . LESSON ...
... pride , the latter produces discontent . 11 . The sun sheds abroad his golden rays , and fills the earth with his vivifying influence . 12. I have no occasion for his services , and am , there- fore , unwilling to receive them . LESSON ...
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... Pride and Humility . No two feelings of the human mind , are more opposite than pride and humility . Pride is founded on a high opinion of ourselves- humility , on the consciousness of the want of merit . Pride is the offspring of ...
... Pride and Humility . No two feelings of the human mind , are more opposite than pride and humility . Pride is founded on a high opinion of ourselves- humility , on the consciousness of the want of merit . Pride is the offspring of ...
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... Pride is the bane of happiness . Custom is second nature . 20. Honesty is the best policy . 21 . 22 . 23 . 24 . A man is known by his company . Pride must have a fall . Learning is better than houses and lands . Time is money . LESSON ...
... Pride is the bane of happiness . Custom is second nature . 20. Honesty is the best policy . 21 . 22 . 23 . 24 . A man is known by his company . Pride must have a fall . Learning is better than houses and lands . Time is money . LESSON ...
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Page 30 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 31 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 30 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Page 54 - Yet, fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream! by the village side; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen ; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.
Page 59 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 30 - Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 10 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 42 - My lord," said Pythias, with a firm voice and noble aspect, "I would it were possible that I might suffer a thousand deaths, rather than my friend should fail in any article of his honour. He cannot fail therein, my lord. I am as confident of his virtue, as I am of my own existence. — But I pray, I beseech the gods, to preserve the life and integrity of my Damon together.
Page 48 - To soar. Hail to the morn, when first they stood On Bunker's height, And, fearless, stemmed the invading flood, And wrote our dearest rights in blood, And mowed in ranks the Hireling brood, In desperate fight!
Page 60 - It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer. I hear the sound of the hammer, I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human limbs. I see the visages of those, who by stealth, and at midnight, labor in this work of hell, foul and dark, as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and torture.