How to Get on in the World: As Demonstrated by the Life and Language of William Cobbett : to which is Added Cobbett's English Grammar with NotesJ.W. Pratt, 1883 - 557 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα ix
... present a very different appearance when regarded from an Ameri- can point of view . The only important things that I have taken from his work are an extract from Mr. Wind- ham's diary , confirming Cobbett's presence at the Pitt dinner ...
... present a very different appearance when regarded from an Ameri- can point of view . The only important things that I have taken from his work are an extract from Mr. Wind- ham's diary , confirming Cobbett's presence at the Pitt dinner ...
Σελίδα 18
... present an encouraging ex- ample of the salutariness and effectiveness of parental admonition . CHAPTER IV . CONDUCT IN LOVE AND COURTSHIP . BUT before following him farther , I must here quote ( from his Advice ) two interesting ...
... present an encouraging ex- ample of the salutariness and effectiveness of parental admonition . CHAPTER IV . CONDUCT IN LOVE AND COURTSHIP . BUT before following him farther , I must here quote ( from his Advice ) two interesting ...
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... present themselves ; and some of these spots far surpass in rural beauty any other that my eyes ever beheld : the creeks abounding towards their sources in waterfalls of endless variety , as well in form as in magnitude , and always ...
... present themselves ; and some of these spots far surpass in rural beauty any other that my eyes ever beheld : the creeks abounding towards their sources in waterfalls of endless variety , as well in form as in magnitude , and always ...
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... present against the absent : here was the power of the eyes pitted against that of the mem- ory : here were all the senses up in arms to subdue the influence of the thoughts : here was vanity , here was pas- sion , here was the spot of ...
... present against the absent : here was the power of the eyes pitted against that of the mem- ory : here were all the senses up in arms to subdue the influence of the thoughts : here was vanity , here was pas- sion , here was the spot of ...
Σελίδα 36
... present day earn at the same or a similar occupation . It was at this time that he composed , in the French language , his well - known grammar , “ Le Maître d'Anglais ; " a grammar intended for Frenchmen to learn English . It is a work ...
... present day earn at the same or a similar occupation . It was at this time that he composed , in the French language , his well - known grammar , “ Le Maître d'Anglais ; " a grammar intended for Frenchmen to learn English . It is a work ...
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Σελίδα 123 - PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
Σελίδα 230 - I continue to receive from foreign powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country.
Σελίδα 9 - ... on the ground, and the weather piercing cold. It was my habit, when I had done my morning's writing, to go out at break of day to take a walk on a hill at the foot of which our barracks lay. In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had, by an invitation to breakfast with me, got up two young. men to join me in my walk ; and our road lay by the house of her father and mother. It was hardly light, but she was out on the snow, scrubbing out a washing-tub. " That's the girl for me,"...
Σελίδα 104 - There are indeed but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.
Σελίδα 267 - COTTAGE ECONOMY: Containing information relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Poultry, &c.
Σελίδα 211 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Σελίδα 216 - Oh to abide in the desert with thee! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.
Σελίδα 166 - I am. Thou art. He is. We are. You are. They are. I was. Thou wast He was. We were. You were. They were.
Σελίδα 204 - A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed ; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed ; where Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails ; where Erskine and Scarlett were dinner-bells ; where Lawrence and Jekyll, the two wittiest men, or nearly so, of their time, were thought bores, is surely a very strange place.
Σελίδα 138 - I might continue this catalogue much further — but, upon the whole, we may observe, that the very scheme and model of the administration of common justice between party and party, was entirely settled by this king; and has continued nearly the same, in all succeeding ages, to this day; abating some few alterations, which the humour or necessity of subsequent times hath occasioned.