 | Salem Town - 1845 - 264 Seiten
...inflection, usually has a very slight upward slide, by way of contrast with the closing cadence. EXAMPLES. ^ The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of...business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at h6nors, then to retire. Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 Seiten
...justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly. 10. The minor longs to be of age ; then to be a man of business ; then to make...estate ; then to arrive at honours ; then to retire. 12. What is called profane history exhibits our nature on its worst side : it is the history of perverse... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 Seiten
...pr'ecepts of philo"sophy, his ow'n endeav"ours, and the most refined conver'sation/ in A"thens." " Though we seem grieved at the shortness of li'fe in ge'neral, we are wishing every pe'riod-of-it/ at an en'd. The mi'nor/ longs to be at age", the'n/ to be a man of business, th'en/... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 Seiten
...without conversation, is like a miser, who lives only to himself. — Watts on the Mind. CLV. Life. — Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in...every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be of age ; then to be a man of business ; then to make up an estate ; then to arrive at honours ; then... | |
 | John Millen - 1846 - 134 Seiten
...gave summer its birth, And scatters his treasures all over the earth. 14. The minor longs to be of age ; then to be a man of business ; then to make...estate ; then to arrive at honours ; then to retire. 15. England is the largest, the most populous, and fertile portion of the British Isles. The merchants... | |
 | Salem Town - 1848 - 300 Seiten
...inflection, usually has a very slight upward slide, by way of contrast with the closing cadence. EXAMPLES. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man ot business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. Thou shall love the'... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 Seiten
...should rise for the sake of variety and harmony, on the pause that precedes the cadence. — Ex. " The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of...make up an estate, then to arrive at honours, then toretire." " ^ur lives, (says Seneca,) are spent either in doing nothing at 411, or in doing nothing... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 Seiten
...daily duties, in the. removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures. 648. Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are constantly wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be of age, then to be a man of... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...to perform and make good what we promise', and really to be what we would seem and appear' to be. 5. Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in...every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be of age', then to be a man of business', then to make up an estate', then to arrive at honours', then... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...what ought to be done, and yet do quite otherwise, are ignorant and stupid. — Socratei. LIFE. — Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in...every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be of age ; then to be a man of business ; then to make up an estate ; then to arrive at honours ; then... | |
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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honours, then to retire. 
