The boys' school; or, Traits of character in early life |
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... 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 , distress the objects of their ...
... 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 , distress the objects of their ...
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... present of a book , or any other article , was sure to produce the warmest expressions of friendship from him . At length he appeared to think he had as much right to the money as William him- self ; and , when it was not liberally ...
... present of a book , or any other article , was sure to produce the warmest expressions of friendship from him . At length he appeared to think he had as much right to the money as William him- self ; and , when it was not liberally ...
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... present state , or with melancholy conjecture anticipate the future . But here William's impetuosity of temper led him again into error ; he was wrong in saying his friend had nothing to fear . A youth like him is endangered by pride ...
... present state , or with melancholy conjecture anticipate the future . But here William's impetuosity of temper led him again into error ; he was wrong in saying his friend had nothing to fear . A youth like him is endangered by pride ...
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... present instance . William had therefore only to watch in si- lence the result of this ill - formed friendship . Little did he expect to gather from it the lesson which it taught him . In vain had Thornton , when intimate with William ...
... present instance . William had therefore only to watch in si- lence the result of this ill - formed friendship . Little did he expect to gather from it the lesson which it taught him . In vain had Thornton , when intimate with William ...
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... present state of mind , you would only give them an opportunity of adding to your distress , and their own fault , by insulting you still farther . ” To alleviate the grief William felt on this occasion , his good friend often invited ...
... present state of mind , you would only give them an opportunity of adding to your distress , and their own fault , by insulting you still farther . ” To alleviate the grief William felt on this occasion , his good friend often invited ...
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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.