A Guide to English Composition, Or One Hundred and Twenty Subjects Analysed ...

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C.S. Francis and Company, 1854
 

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Evil Examples are like pestilential Diseases
25
Employment is the Salt of Life
28
The greatest Events are often drawn by Hairs
32
Fortune
35
Mental Stimulus is necessary for bodily Exercise
36
Knowledge is Power
40
If you wish to give your Talents fair Play dress well
44
Honesty is the best Policy Part I
47
He who is honest from Policy is not an honest Man Part II
52
A little Straw shows which way the Wind blows
55
Mental Cultivation conduces to both Health
59
None are completely happy
66
XXL Resist the beginnings of Evil
69
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
73
Pride is the Bane of Happiness
78
Habit is second Nature
83
A Man is known by his Companions
88
Virtue is its own Reward
91
Vice brings its own Punishment
95
A wounded Reputation is seldom cured
100
A good Cause makes a stout Heart
103
Contentment is the true Philosophers Stone
107
Take care of the Pence and the Pounds will take care of themselves
111
Idle young Men make needy old ones
115
A soft Answer turneth away Wrath
119
Every Bird is known by his Note
125
A slow Fire makes sweet Malt
129
It is dangerous to play with edged Tools
132
Too much Familiarity breeds Contempt
135
The Cross of Vice is far heavier than that
140
Endeavour to be what you would seem to
144
The Love of Money is the Root of all Evil
149
The Middle Station of Life is most favourable to Virtue and Happiness
154
The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning
159
A Classical is far superior to a mere English Education
163
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166
Works of Taste have a social Benefit on
169
Why should a whole Class be turned down when One or Two Boys of it do not know the appointed Lesson? Part I Pro
175
1
176
7
178
9
179
12
183
CAUTIONS
184
21
190
Cleanliness is a Pearl of the first Water
191
Poetry and wellconducted Periodicals are not with
201
Luxury destroys both Independence and Liberty
209
LVIL Refinement is a national Benefit
215
25
220
28
224
Little Neglect may breed great Mischief
227
Study to mind your own Business Part I
272
Study to mind your own Business and not anothers Part II
274
The Commandments of God are not grievous
277
Set not your Affections on Things below
280
Anger is temporary Madness
283
Be merciful
286
Hunger is the best Sauce
290
A blithe Heart makes a blooming Visage
292
Slander always leaves a Slur
294
He that hath Pity on the Poor lendeth to the Lord
297
Fools make a mock of Sin
299
Prosperity is a stronger Trial of Virtue than
300
Envy is Rottenness of the Bones
303
A righteous Man regardeth the Life of his Beast XCII He that oppresseth the Poor reproacheth his Maker
305
A Fault confessed is half redressed
309
Charity hopeth all Things and is kind
310
Necessity has no
312
A guilty Conscience is the worst Accuser
314
Swear not at
316
Learning is better than House and Land
319
Keep the Sabbath holy
321
Never contend about Trifles
323
Ye are the light of the World
325
47
327
Theme Page CIII No Friend like the Friend of Publicans and Sinners
330
Prosperity gains Friends
333
All Work and no Play makes Jack a dull Boy
337
The Face is an Index of the Mind
339
Science the Handmaid of Religion
342
CVIIL The more you have the more you desire
347
Be sure your Sin will find you out
349
59
352
Follow not a Multitude to do evil
354
Religion makes the Mind cheerful and happy
356
Are ye not much better than they
358
Those who covet earnestly the best Gifts will not covet Riches
361
Love thy Neighbour as thyself
366
Example more powerful than Precept
370
Every Creature of God is good
373
CXVIIL A good name is better than precious Ointment
376
Selfpraise is no Commendation
379
The Blessings of God outweigh the Penalties of Sin
383
CXXL No place like Home
389
PART IV
396
Favours bestowed readily are doubly welcome
397
got ill spent
398
Opportunity makes the Thief
399
Great Bargains are great Pickpockets
400
The Offender never pardons
406
One Swallow does not make a Summer
412

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Page 369 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 198 - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Page 369 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 273 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 82 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 98 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : 15 "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Page 240 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page 179 - From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 394 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...

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