Good Talking and Good Manners: Fine Arts, with a Paper on the Social Law of Mutual Help and the Labor ProblemWolcott & West, 1887 - 151 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 122 - Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Seite 73 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Seite 78 - HAIL ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it! like grace and beauty which beget inclinations to love at first sight : 'tis ye who open this door and let the stranger in.
Seite 78 - GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Seite 129 - It is terribly true. But after a Christianized science has properly arranged the whole social structure, and effected a just distribution of industry and privilege, alms will more and more give place to wages. Charity will find its exercise, not in the gross supply of empty stomachs, but in the higher and more beautiful offices that minister moral sympathy and spiritual strength. The different classes will really help and strengthen one another, just as fast as they all contribute to a science of...
Seite 80 - With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want ?' — She wants a heart. She speaks, behaves, and acts, just as she ought, But never, never reach'd one generous thought.
Seite 136 - ... slacken. His little tract on Human Nature has scarcely an ambiguous or a needless word. He has so great a power of always choosing the most significant term, that he never is reduced to the poor expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly studied the genius of the language, and knew so well how to steer between pedantry and vulgarity, that two centuries have not superannuated probably more than a dozen of his words.
Seite 147 - Man never yet fastened one end of a chain round the neck of his brother, that God's own hand did not fasten the other end round the neck of the oppressor.
Seite 80 - Of all her dears she never slander'd one, But cares not if a thousand are undone. Would Chloe know if you're alive or dead ? She bids her footman put it in her head. Chloe is prudent — Would you too be wise ? Then never break your heart when Chloe dies.
Seite 105 - By the expansion their presence thus gives to our moral horizon, a needy family, first entangling our sympathies in their straitened lot, set our feet finally in a larger place, and become our richest creditors. Lazarus comes a prophet of regeneration to Dives' gate. Penury preaches salvation from its ragged pulpit, in the name of him who had not where to lay his head, and who, in his own blessed person, made poverty sacred forever.