A Guide to English Composition, Or One Hundred and Twenty Subjects Analysed ...

Forsideomslag
C.S. Francis and Company, 1854
 

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None are completely happy
66
Resist the beginnings of Evil
69
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
73
Pride is the Bane of Happiness
78
Habit is second Nature
83
A Man is known by his Companions
88
Virtue is its own Reward
91
Vice brings its own Punishment
95
A wounded Reputation is seldom cured XXIX A good Cause makes a stout Heart Page 66 69 73 78 83
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107
Take care of the Pence and the Pounds will take care of themselves
111
Idle young Men make needy old ones
115
A soft Answer turneth away Wrath
119
Every Bird is known by his Note
125
A slow Fire makes sweet Malt
129
It is dangerous to play with edged Tools
132
Too much Familiarity breeds Contempt
135
The Cross of Vice is far heavier than that of Virtue
140
Endeavour to be what you would seem to be XL The Love of Money is the Root of all Evil
149
The Middle Station of Life is most favourable to Virtue and Happiness
154
The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning
159
A Classical is far superior to a mere English Education
163
Works of Taste have a social Benefit on
169
Why should a whole Class be turned down when One or Two Boys of it do not know the appointed Lesson? Part I Pro
175
Why should not a whole Class be turned down when One or Two Boys of it do not know the appointed Lesson ? Part II
179
CAUTIONS
184
The Ideal affords more Pleasure than the Real
185
The second Blow makes the Fray XLIX Cleanliness is a Pearl of the first Water Page
188
Fortune
193
The Evils we bring on ourselves are more bitter than those which are laid upon
196
Poetry and wellconducted Periodicals are not with out their Uses
201
The Study of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy is attended with incalculable Advantages
204
Luxury destroys both Independence and Liberty
209
Learning conduces to moral and private Virtues
212
Refinement is a national Benefit
215
Family Disagreements are injurious to Morals as well as to Happiness
218
To be good is to be happy
221
A rolling Stone gathers no Moss
224
Little Neglect may breed great Mischief
227
Use Pleasures moderately and they will last the longer
230
He who makes mention of an old Offence separates Friends
233
Only a Fool turns aside to Deceit
235
Avoid Extremes
238
Enjoyment consists in Action more than in Possession
241
Be anxious for nothing
264
It is not lawful to do Evil that Good may come
267
Study to mind your own Business Part I
272
Study to mind your own Business and not anothers Part II
274
The Commandments of God are not grievous
277
Set not your Affections on Things below
281
Anger is temporary Madness
283
Be merciful Page
286
Hunger is the best Sauce
290
A blithe Heart makes a blooming Visage
292
Slander always leaves a Slur LXXXVI By others Faults wise Men correct their own 290
294
Envy is Rottenness of the Bones
299
He that oppresseth the Poor reproacheth his Maker
305
A Fault confessed is half redressed
309
Charity hopeth all Things and is kind
310
Necessity has no
312
A guilty Conscience is the worst Accuser
314
Swear not at
316
Learning is better than House and Land
319
Keep the Sabbath holy
321
Never contend about Trifles 305 307
323
Ye are the light of the World
325
The Righteous is more excellent than his Neigh bour
327
Prosperity gains Friends
333
Love thy Neighbour as thyself
366
Every Creature of God is good
373
PART IV
396
Strength is increased by Concord
400
Kindness begets Kindness
401
Where there is a Will there is a Way ib CXLIV The sweetest wine makes the tartest Vinegar
402
Never entrust to another what you can do yourself
403
A Bird in the Hand is worth Two in the Bush
404
The Burnt Child dreads Fire
405
He who wants to beat his Dog may soon find a Stick ib CLX Economy is the Philosophers Stone
406
Practical Jokes are vulgar ib CLXIV Short Reckonings make long Friends
407
Time brings all Things to Light ib CLXIX Never wear a brown Hat n Friesland
408
No Man is always wise
409
He who shuns his Trial acknowledges himself guilty
410
Money makes the Mare to go
411
Make a Virtue of Necessity
412
Ill Workmen find Fault with their Tools
413
CXCIIL No Pains no Gains ib CXCIV Praise is the Hire of Virtue
414
Either never attempt or persevere to the end
415

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Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 240 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Side 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.
Side 394 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...

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