The works of Samuel Richardson, with a prefatory chapter of biogr. criticism by L. Stephen, Band 3

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Seite 342 - But under whose care soever a child is put to be taught during the tender and flexible years of his life, this is certain, it should be one who thinks Latin and language the least part of education...
Seite 54 - MAN vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind ' his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he ' shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his
Seite 310 - Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view...
Seite 54 - Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; 4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Seite 322 - ... particularly servants. It is not unusual to observe the children in gentlemen's families treat the servants of the house with domineering words, names of contempt, and an imperious carriage as if they were of another race and species beneath them.
Seite 343 - ... would in due time produce all the rest and which, if it be not got and settled so as to keep out ill and vicious habits, languages and sciences and all the other accomplishments of education will be to no purpose but to make the worse or more dangerous man.
Seite 301 - Offensive circumstances ordinarily infect innocent things, which they are joined with: and the very sight of a cup, wherein any one uses to take nauseous physic, turns his stomach ; so that nothing will relish well out of it, though the cup be ever so clean, and well-shaped, and of the richest materials.
Seite 338 - A smooth pebble, a piece of paper, the mother's bunch of keys, or any thing they cannot hurt themselves with, serves as much to divert little children, as those more chargeable and curious toys from the shops, which are presently put out of order and broken.
Seite 371 - Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
Seite 307 - ... hundred scholars under his eye, any longer than they are in the school together: Nor can it be expected, that he should instruct them successfully in...

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