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... . The habit of forming such opinions for our- selves , instead of receiving them from others , is not the least among the advantages of such a course of read- ing and reflection as Lord Chatham recommends . It will xxiii.
... . The habit of forming such opinions for our- selves , instead of receiving them from others , is not the least among the advantages of such a course of read- ing and reflection as Lord Chatham recommends . It will xxiii.
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... advantages hereafter , in the future course of your life , that you can only acquire now by your emula- tion and noble labours in the pursuit of learning , and of every acquirement that is to make you superior to other gentlemen . I ...
... advantages hereafter , in the future course of your life , that you can only acquire now by your emula- tion and noble labours in the pursuit of learning , and of every acquirement that is to make you superior to other gentlemen . I ...
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... to the pro- digious advantages of it to the heart and morals . I hope you will drink them as somebody does in Virgil , of another sort of cup : Ille Impiger hausit spumantem Pateram . I shall be highly pleased to hear from you , 7.
... to the pro- digious advantages of it to the heart and morals . I hope you will drink them as somebody does in Virgil , of another sort of cup : Ille Impiger hausit spumantem Pateram . I shall be highly pleased to hear from you , 7.
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... few years of your life , will repay you a hundred fold , in the pleasures , honours , and advantages of all the remainder of your days . My heart is so full of the most earnest desire that you should do well , that 12.
... few years of your life , will repay you a hundred fold , in the pleasures , honours , and advantages of all the remainder of your days . My heart is so full of the most earnest desire that you should do well , that 12.
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... advantage or prejudice to a man , as he happens to have formed it to a graceful , noble , en- gaging , and proper manner , or to a vulgar , coarse , ill - bred , or awkward and ungenteel one . Behaviour , though an external thing which ...
... advantage or prejudice to a man , as he happens to have formed it to a graceful , noble , en- gaging , and proper manner , or to a vulgar , coarse , ill - bred , or awkward and ungenteel one . Behaviour , though an external thing which ...
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Abridg Adieu affectionate uncle amiable authority awkward and ungenteel Bath behaviour BOLT COURT Burnet's History Cambridge cation cere character ciples Clarendon course danger dear boy dear child DEAR NEPHEW dearest nephew desires her best DROPMORE EARL OF CHATHAM eloquence English history father form opi gentleman give gout graceful habit happy Hayes hear heart hope infinite intended James's Square knowledge Lady Hester desires learning Leech lence lessons of Lord Let me know LETTER Lord Chatham love of virtue Ludlow Macte tuâ Virtute manly manner matter ment mind moral muses Nathaniel Bacon natural ness never nions noble obligation Oldcastle's Remarks opinion parliament Patriæ Pay Office philosophy pleased pleasure Plutarch politeness proper recommend religion render sion Sir Richard soon statesman stitution Sunning Hill superior sure thanks thing tion truest affection trust vate Virgil wish write youth ἀγαθῶν καὶ Τῆς
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Page 2 - Musam meditaris avena ; nos patriae fines et dulcia linquimus arva : nos patriam fugimus ; tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas.
Page xxix - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 6 - ... me here, at Bath, but very lately, after making a considerable circuit to find me. I should have otherwise, my dear child, returned you thanks for the very great pleasure you have given me, long before now. The very good account you give me of your studies, and that delivered in very good Latin, for your time, has filled me with the highest expectation of your future improvements: I see the foundations so well laid, that I do not make the least doubt but you will become a perfect good scholar;...
Page 59 - I desired you some time since to read lord Clarendon's History of the civil wars. I have lately read a much honester and more instructive book, of the same period of history; it is the History of the Parliament, by Thomas May,* esq., &c. I will send it to you as soon as you return to Cambridge.
Page 97 - DEAR NEPHEW, I HAVE the pleasure to acquaint you with the glad tidings of Hayes. Lady Hester was safely delivered this morning of a son. She and the child are as well as possible, and the father in the joy of his heart.
Page 10 - Go on, my dear boy, by this golden rule, and you cannot fail to become every thing your generous heart prompts you to wish to be, and that mine most affectionately wishes for you. There is but one danger in your way; and that is, perhaps, natural enough to your age, the love of pleasure, or the fear of close application and laborious diligence. With , the last there is nothing you may...
Page 35 - ... gesticulations of the body, or movements of the muscles of the face. It is rare to see in any one a graceful laughter; it is generally better to smile than laugh out, especially to contract a habit of laughing at small or no jokes. Sometimes it would be...
Page 46 - I trust, prematurely form notions of your own, concerning that usage of the world (as it is called) into which you have not yet travelled, and which must be long studied and practised before it can be tolerably well known. I can repeat nothing to you of so infinite consequence to your future welfare, as to conjure you not to be hasty in taking up notions and opinions: guard your honest and ingenuous mind against this main danger of youth : with regard to all things, that appear not to your reason,...
Page 41 - You much overrate the obligation, whatever it be, which youth has to those who have trod the paths of the world before them, for their friendly advice how to avoid the inconveniences, dangers, and evils, which they themselves may have run upon, for want of such timely warnings, and to seize, cultivate, and carry forward towards perfection, those advantages, graces, virtues, and felicities, which they may have totally missed, or stopped short in the generous pursuit. To lend this helping hand to those...
Page 12 - I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber, " If you do not rise early, you can make progress in nothing. If you do not set apart your hours of reading ; if you suffer yourself or any one else to break in upon them, your days will slip through your hands unprofitable and frivolous, and unenjoyed by yourself.