The Writings of Jane Taylor, Bind 3Perkins & Marvin, 1832 |
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... habits will increase with his years : a listless , burdensome life , and early death is his probable destiny . The next applicant appears with a frowning brow , and a discontented , clouded aspect : his temper is sullen and obstinate ...
... habits will increase with his years : a listless , burdensome life , and early death is his probable destiny . The next applicant appears with a frowning brow , and a discontented , clouded aspect : his temper is sullen and obstinate ...
Side 32
... ap- pears , however , that he early acquired habits of attention and industry ; that he has courage and perseverance to press forward in his undertak- ings , in spite of difficulties , till he has 32 EVERY MAN HIS The Moth.
... ap- pears , however , that he early acquired habits of attention and industry ; that he has courage and perseverance to press forward in his undertak- ings , in spite of difficulties , till he has 32 EVERY MAN HIS The Moth.
Side 35
... habits , and to improve their manners and characters ? and have they actually begun to make such efforts ? then I prophesy a happy new year to them ; and that if they persevere in their resolutions , it will be the happiest they have ...
... habits , and to improve their manners and characters ? and have they actually begun to make such efforts ? then I prophesy a happy new year to them ; and that if they persevere in their resolutions , it will be the happiest they have ...
Side 50
... habits of my poor old mistress , such a love of neatness , that any thing untidy was particularly offensive to me . I became , as you may easily imagine , much at- tached to my present employer , and wished for nothing better than to ...
... habits of my poor old mistress , such a love of neatness , that any thing untidy was particularly offensive to me . I became , as you may easily imagine , much at- tached to my present employer , and wished for nothing better than to ...
Side 54
... habit , which otherwise renders the most sublime objects unaffecting to us . It enables us to see things as they are : to the eye of taste , nature is ever fresh and new , and those objects 54 THE PLEASURES OF TASTE .
... habit , which otherwise renders the most sublime objects unaffecting to us . It enables us to see things as they are : to the eye of taste , nature is ever fresh and new , and those objects 54 THE PLEASURES OF TASTE .
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Side 88 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather : he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses ; from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Side 161 - Very good," replied the dial; "but recollect, that though you may think of a million strokes in an instant, you are required to execute but one; and that, however often you may hereafter have to swing, a moment will always be given you to swing in.
Side 20 - Pet. i. 10, by believing it, for fear we come short of it,f according to that of the apostle, " let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to come short of it,
Side 162 - Thus, in looking forward to future life, let us recollect that we have not to sustain all its toil, to endure all its sufferings, or encounter all its crosses at once. One moment comes laden with its own little...
Side 161 - Upon this, the weights, who had never been accused of light conduct, used all their influence in urging him to proceed; when, as with one consent, the wheels began to turn, the hands began to move, the pendulum began to swing...
Side 160 - The pendulum complied, and ticked six times at its usual pace. "Now," resumed the dial, "may I be allowed to enquire if that exertion was at all fatiguing or disagreeable to you?" "Not in the least," replied the pendulum; "it is not of six strokes that I complain, nor of sixty, but of millions.
Side 89 - Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; ~a.ll things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Side 95 - Again, how many years of my life were devoted to the acquisition of those languages by the means of which I might explore the records of remote ages, and become familiar with the learning and literature of other times...
Side 163 - It is not thus with those, who, " by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, honour, and immortality :" day by day, minute by minute, they execute the appointed task to which the requisite measure of time and strength is proportioned : and thus, having worked while it was called day, they at length rest from their labours, and their
Side 58 - is it that " man's life consists not in the abundance 'of the things : which he possesses,