The Complete Letter-writer: Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life, Also a Variety of Elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, ... |
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Sun Vista is a very good park, its only a few steps from being a great park.
(1) The restaurant is not a very popular with residents, not because the food is bad, but because a lot of people are not comfortable with the chef-promoter attitude of the cook. the park would be better served with a cook that focused on the kitchen and not the inner workings of the park.
(2) The residents also need a maintenance manager that is approachable and responds to residents problems, without situations escalating into a shouting match.
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance admired affection affectionate affure agreeable anfwer appear beauty begin believe body brother character charms compliments concern confider converfation dear death defire direct duty expect eyes fame father favour fenfe fervant fhall fhould fifter fince fincere fome foon friends fuch fure give given hand happy hear heart Heaven honour hope human humble huſband kind lady laft leave lefs LETTER live look Lord lover Madam manner mean Mifs mind moft morning moſt mother muft muſt myſelf nature never obferve obliged occafion once opinion paffed paffion perfon perhaps pleaſe pleaſure prefent reafon receive refpect ridiculous talk tell thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion told true turn uſed virtue whofe whole wife woman write young your's yourſelf youth
Popular passages
Page 246 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
Page 154 - ... effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him.
Page 132 - ... seem young, be told so by her glass, and have no aches to inform her of the truth : and when she shall appear to be mortal, may her Lord not mourn for her, but go hand in hand with her to that place where we are told there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage, that being there divorced we may all have an equal interest in her again.
Page 199 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
Page 222 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way.
Page 149 - The King, I trust, will deal graciously with you, restore you those honours and that fortune which a distempered time hath deprived you of, together with the life of your father...
Page 193 - ... utterly forgetful of that world from which we are gone, and ripening for that to which we are to go ! If you retain any memory of the past...
Page 154 - We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue.
Page 153 - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple and hesitation; we enter them, but enter timorous...
Page 199 - I am even as unconcerned as was that honest Hibernian, who being in bed in the great storm some years ago, and told the house would tumble over his head, made answer, " What care I for the house ? I am only a lodger.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Complete Letter-writer: Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life, Also a Variety of Elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, ... Eighteenth century collections online |
| Publisher | W Darling, 1778 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 249 pages |
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