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... formed in his boyhood were never relaxed or broken through life . On the contrary he was noticed for maintaining among men throughout readiness to oblige , his thorough ingenuousness , confidence of all with life the ascendency which he ...
... formed in his boyhood were never relaxed or broken through life . On the contrary he was noticed for maintaining among men throughout readiness to oblige , his thorough ingenuousness , confidence of all with life the ascendency which he ...
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... formed among the idle , the dissolute , and refractory , the masters applied to him , and through his exertions many a disturbance was avoided . Such in fact was his success in this way , arising from the power of influence he possessed ...
... formed among the idle , the dissolute , and refractory , the masters applied to him , and through his exertions many a disturbance was avoided . Such in fact was his success in this way , arising from the power of influence he possessed ...
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... formed so essential a part of his character that through life he inspired all with whom he came in contact with perfect confidence , and consequently could not fail to exercise great influence . And it may be said with truth that the ...
... formed so essential a part of his character that through life he inspired all with whom he came in contact with perfect confidence , and consequently could not fail to exercise great influence . And it may be said with truth that the ...
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... formed so prominent a part of his character , and which education and cultivation only rendered more conspicuous , he disarmed her resentment . Her sense of injury removed , she laughed as heartily as anyone at the vexation of the young ...
... formed so prominent a part of his character , and which education and cultivation only rendered more conspicuous , he disarmed her resentment . Her sense of injury removed , she laughed as heartily as anyone at the vexation of the young ...
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... formed a resolution . On the following day he visited the girl's master , and , after a long interview , the particulars of which never transpired , he succeeded in not only procuring his consent to the union , but also to his parting ...
... formed a resolution . On the following day he visited the girl's master , and , after a long interview , the particulars of which never transpired , he succeeded in not only procuring his consent to the union , but also to his parting ...
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Página 231 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 210 - But wherefore do you hold me here so long ? What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently : For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Página 9 - Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Página 89 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences...
Página 238 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained; "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 42 - I will bear my sorrows like a man, But I must also feel them as a man. I cannot but remember such things were, And were most dear to me.
Página 59 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Página 244 - The whole South is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia, after a long struggle, has been drawn, and though I recognize no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed, yet in my own person I had to meet the question, whether I should take part against my native State.
Página 231 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more.
Página 35 - Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, they are the life, the soul of reading : take them out of this book, for instance, you might as well take the book along with them ; one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it : restore them to the writer, — he steps forth like a bridegroom, — bids All hail ; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.