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Account Current acknowledge advise affectionate Ascham House balance Bill of Exchange Bill of Lading candidates cash cent Change into Notes Civil Service Examinations College of Preceptors Comma Compose a School Dear Sir draft enclose English Grammar ENGLISH LANGUAGE epistolary Examples excellent exercise father favor Gerard Innes GLEIG HISTORY honor hope instruction interest Invoice James Baring James Bruce JAMES GREGORY JAMES L JOHN HUNTER July June kind King William Street last letter letter-writing Liverpool London LONGMAN Lord Lordship M. N. Fire Office Malham Manchester manual master ment merchants Messrs N. P. Institution PARAPHRASING AND ANALYSIS Paternoster Row pleasure pounds précis-writing present pupils Rasselas receipt Refer to Letter remain remittance request Rule School Holiday Letter School Series sentence Sept shillings ship shipment Street style teachers tion treatise Trojan war write youth
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Page 51 - You formerly observed to me, that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well. Thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, or of his body, in their turns.
Page 52 - ... thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines. It gives so warning a concussion to those props of our vanity, our strength and youth, that we think of fortifying ourselves within, when there is so little dependence upon our outworks.
Page 51 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 53 - 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.
Page 80 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 55 - I must not close my letter without giving you one principal event of my history; which was, that (in the course of my late tour) I set out one morning before five o'clock, the moon shining through a dark and misty autumnal air, and got to the sea-coast time enough to be at the Sun's Levee. I saw the clouds and dark vapours open gradually to right and left, rolling over one another in great smoky wreaths, and the tide (as it flowed gently in upon the sands) first whitening, then slightly tinged with...
Page 54 - I received your letter at Southampton, and as I would wish to treat everybody according to their own rule and measure of good breeding, have, against my inclination, waited till now before I answered it, purely out of fear and respect, and an ingenious diffidence of my own abilities.
Page 53 - For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.
Page 54 - Abbey. There may be richer and greater houses of religion, but the abbot is content with his situation. See there, at the top of that hanging meadow under the shade of those old trees that bend into half a circle about it, he is walking slowly (good man ! ) and bidding his beads for the souls of his benefactors interred in that venerable pile that lies beneath him.
Page 52 - ... very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures. When a smart fit of sickness tells me this scurvy tenement of my body...