The boys' school; or, Traits of character in early life |
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... hope , and these in fear .. Not present good or ill , the joy or curse , But future views of better or of worse . " Although it is cruel to ridicule personal defects , why should remarks , which can alone disgrace those who make them ...
... hope , and these in fear .. Not present good or ill , the joy or curse , But future views of better or of worse . " Although it is cruel to ridicule personal defects , why should remarks , which can alone disgrace those who make them ...
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... hope I need not tell you , ought never to be made the objects of contempt or ridicule . Master Falkner , the young gentleman I am speaking of , is ill - shaped , and lame ; diminu- tive in his stature , and lisps very much in his speech ...
... hope I need not tell you , ought never to be made the objects of contempt or ridicule . Master Falkner , the young gentleman I am speaking of , is ill - shaped , and lame ; diminu- tive in his stature , and lisps very much in his speech ...
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... hope I shall not laugh at him ; for I should be very sorry to do that , after what Mr. Morton has said ; but it will be so droll to see a little boy limping along ; I dare say he walks thus : " and he endeavoured to assume a limp- ing ...
... hope I shall not laugh at him ; for I should be very sorry to do that , after what Mr. Morton has said ; but it will be so droll to see a little boy limping along ; I dare say he walks thus : " and he endeavoured to assume a limp- ing ...
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... hope that he might gain improvement , and be enabled to follow the plan this gentleman had pointed out for his future life , exceeded his fears ; and , though he expected many disagreeable occur- rences to arise , he was continually ...
... hope that he might gain improvement , and be enabled to follow the plan this gentleman had pointed out for his future life , exceeded his fears ; and , though he expected many disagreeable occur- rences to arise , he was continually ...
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... hope darted into his mind , and irradiated his countenance . Smi- ling through his tears , he rose from his seat , wiped his eyes , adjusted his dress , which had been discomposed by travelling , and prepared himself for Mr. Morton's ...
... hope darted into his mind , and irradiated his countenance . Smi- ling through his tears , he rose from his seat , wiped his eyes , adjusted his dress , which had been discomposed by travelling , and prepared himself for Mr. Morton's ...
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acquaintance affection affectionate afford allow amiable amusement ance appearance Armenia Asia Minor asked assistance attention Austen Belmore Belmore's better blush CHAPTER companions conduct considered Constantinople continued counting-house COWPER dear boy dear uncle desire disappointed displeasure disposition distress Emily endea endeavoured expect expressed eyes father faults favour fear feel felt fluence folly forgive fortune friendship gave gentleman give good-natured happiness hear heard Henry Henry Thornton High-heeled shoes hope Howard hurt insult Journey kindness knew laugh liam lisp little Howard look Master Falkner ment mind misfortunes Miss Somers Morton never obliged occasion opinion parents Persia personal defects play-ground pleasure Poland possess procure received regret regu rence render replied William reproached returned William ridicule sentiments shew situation sure tell temper thing Thornton thought tion told uncle's wish wound
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Page 78 - ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend ; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end.
Page 81 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Page 93 - The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.
Page 89 - The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike ; The sneer equivocal, the harsh reply, And all the cruel language of the eye ; The artful injury, whose...
Page 101 - Sees the gale of prosperity veering, Which promised to waft him to port. Our hopes are the gales that serenely Waft onward our sails as we float; Our tears are the whirlwinds that keenly O'erwhelm our poor perishing boat; And reason's the beacon that gives...
Page 116 - ... seldom of those things which habit has made common, otherwise we should correct many of them : there needed only 'to give one's feelings room on this theme, and they could prompt no other conduct than mine. Your approbation, however, is not lost upon me : the best of our resolutions are bettered, by a consciousness of the suffrage of good men in their favour ; and the reward is still higher, when that suffrage is from those we love.
Page 82 - Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down ; for to-day 1 must abide at thy house. 6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.