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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ... - Page 240
edited by - 1859
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Grammatical analysis

Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 82 pages
...act.—Shakespeare. 2. And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody.—Scott. 3. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world.—Spectator. 4. I come to bury Csesar, not to praise him.—Shakespeare. 5. Fire from his eyes,...
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The School Reader: Fifth Book : Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fourth ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 468 pages
...deceitful Ibid. 7. Set honor in one eye, and death in tho other-. And I will look on both indifferently. 8. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censure of the world. 9. Rdigion raises, men above themselves; irreligion sinks them beneath the brutes....
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Key to ... Grammatical analysis

Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 118 pages
...he wished (to try the long-forgotten melody), yet (he) feared to try The long-forgotten melody. 3. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; hie next (care) (should be) to escape the censures of the world. ..... 4. I come to bury Cœsar,...
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Bible illustrations: consisting of apophthegms [ &c.], grouped ..., Volume 6

James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pages
...approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. V. 18. A man's first care should be kuow him. — Addison. to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next,...the public. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...with it, but are impatient of being bantered or misled by others. LOCKE. Conduct of the Understanding. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public. Spectator, No. 122. RELIGIOIf. Is not our mistress, fair Religion, As worthy of all our hearts' devotion...
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The Country Gentleman's Magazine

Simpkin Marshall & Co - 1869 - 590 pages
...glaring practice of this kind should be rectified, and that too with despatch. Addison says truly, that " A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...heart; his next to escape the censures of the world." Some seedsmen, undoubtedly, have little to prick their conscience, because they have all along acted...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...in via pro vehiculo est. Pi 6. SYR. FRAG. An agreeable companion on the road is as good is a coach. A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches...the public : a man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behariour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of...
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The Principles of English Grammar: Comprising the Substance of All the Most ...

William Lennie - 1872 - 248 pages
...Bay. Put the Word of God into the hands of my son. His noble conduct well deserved honourable reward. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart. Things remaining thus, the secretary's character will suffer greatly. The first two ships of the French...
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The Biblical Museum: A Collection of Notes Explanatory, Homiletic, and ...

James Comper Gray - 1872 - 422 pages
...'iJo. xii.26; Col. Ш. 24 ; Ep. i. 6. / Dr. W. Arnot. " A man's first care should be to avoid tt e reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world ... Л man is more sигe of his conduct when the verdict wh. he passes on his own behaviour is thus...
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Extracts from Various Authors, and Fragments of Table-talk: Afternoons at L ...

Edward Law Hussey - 1873 - 172 pages
...temper, has nothing in it of true greatness of mind. — PLUTARCH, Timoleon and P. Emilius compared. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there can not be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives...
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