An English and Arabic Dictionary, in Two PartsB. Quaritch., 1858 - 1060 strán (strany) |
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abstract acquaintance acquired action ADJECTIVES advantages adverb Æsop ancient anecdote appears assertion Avarice beautiful Born cause character circumstances command complement composition Conclude conduct connected considered copula cultivation death difficulty Duke Duke of York effects employed England English English language essay example exercise fable faculties father favour feelings folly frequently George Rooke give glish Goldsmith Greek habits human ideas imagination imitation indicative mood James II Julius Cæsar king knowledge language Latin learner LESSON Lives Lord Lord Clive mankind manner meaning ment mind mode moral nature necessary necessity NOUNS objects opinion paragraph parliament passion Penny Cyclopædia persons Philip of Macedon pleasures possession predicate principle proposed proposition pupil qualities racter reason remarks Saxon sense sentence signification style talents temper tence thing thought tion Variety of Expression verb vice virtue words writing young
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Strana 299 - 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.
Strana 273 - A man should endeavor, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.
Strana 212 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Strana 297 - I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following speculations, that the reader may conceive rightly what is the subject which I proceed upon.
Strana 300 - We might here add, that the pleasures of the fancy are more conducive to health than those of the understanding,, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too violent a labour of the brain.
Strana 212 - O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old /Egina's rock, and Idra's isle, The god of gladness sheds his parting smile; O'er his own regions lingering, loves to shine, Though there his altars are no more divine.
Strana 297 - There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination.
Strana 283 - THERE are several persons who have many pleasures and entertainments in their possession, which they do not enjoy. It is, therefore, a kind and good office to acquaint them with their own happiness, and turn their attention to such instances of their good fortune as they are apt to overlook.
Strana 285 - MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless, and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes. He is beset with dangers on all sides ; and may become unhappy by numberless casualties, which he could not foresee, nor have prevented had he foreseen them. It is our comfort, while we are obnoxious...
Strana 289 - Were the sun, which enlightens this part of the creation, with all the host of planetary worlds that move about him, utterly extinguished and annihilated, they would not be missed more than a grain of sand upon the sea-shore. The space they possess is so exceedingly little in comparison of the whole, that it would scarce make a blank in the creation.