Plain Words to Young Men. by Augustus Woodbury. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 41
Page 7
... feel more fervently , to comprehend more rapidly , as well as to work more swiftly . If we delay ; if we hang back at all ; if we stop to consider and carefully weigh what we shall do , we are left behind . The world passes by us . We ...
... feel more fervently , to comprehend more rapidly , as well as to work more swiftly . If we delay ; if we hang back at all ; if we stop to consider and carefully weigh what we shall do , we are left behind . The world passes by us . We ...
Page 9
... feel inspired to better and no- bler lives in the present , than any that have yet been lived . We should not look back upon those ages , which we call sacred , as though they never could be repeated , but try to understand and ...
... feel inspired to better and no- bler lives in the present , than any that have yet been lived . We should not look back upon those ages , which we call sacred , as though they never could be repeated , but try to understand and ...
Page 18
... feeling . Nothing seems to be difficult . Every thing is easy . The way is clear before the mind . The obstructions and hindrances are not perceived , or , if regarded at all , are deemed of slight importance . For with all this ...
... feeling . Nothing seems to be difficult . Every thing is easy . The way is clear before the mind . The obstructions and hindrances are not perceived , or , if regarded at all , are deemed of slight importance . For with all this ...
Page 27
... debasing , uncivilized , and fatal as it must be to all the best interests of human life . It is true , that this feeling respecting home may de- generate into a selfish love of home comforts and ease THE YOUNG MAN AT HOME . 27.
... debasing , uncivilized , and fatal as it must be to all the best interests of human life . It is true , that this feeling respecting home may de- generate into a selfish love of home comforts and ease THE YOUNG MAN AT HOME . 27.
Page 28
... feel for the home we have quitted ; nor can we break the ties which bind us to it . It belongs to the human heart to cast a retrospective eye upon the scenes of early life , and recall again the affections 28 PLAIN WORDS .
... feel for the home we have quitted ; nor can we break the ties which bind us to it . It belongs to the human heart to cast a retrospective eye upon the scenes of early life , and recall again the affections 28 PLAIN WORDS .
Common terms and phrases
action affections American idea amusement Anglo Saxon beauty become belongs better blessing brave called character Christian Church civilization conservatism course declared divine duty earth Elizabeth Fry evil faithful faithless false falsehood father feel fidelity filled friends give God's hand happiness heart Hebrew honest honor Hugh Miller human indolence influence inspired intercourse ious justice kind labor land liberty ligion live look manhood mankind manly marriage means ment metempsychosis mind moral nature ness never New-England noble one's opinion ourselves party pathy patriotism Plato pleasure Plutarch political polygamy position present principles Protestantism religion religious respect selfish slave slavery social society soul spirit success things thought tion toil true true thing truth vice virtue weak William of Orange woman words worth wrong young man's youth
Popular passages
Page 166 - ... to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 30 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 55 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet...
Page 55 - I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 96 - Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. 0 but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep.
Page 204 - Count me o'er Earth's chosen heroes, — they were souls that stood alone While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone ; — Stood serene and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
Page 110 - A king might wish to hold in fee. O rich man's son! there is a toil That with all others level stands; Large charity doth never soil, But only whiten, soft white hands, — • This is the best crop from thy lands; A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being rich to hold in fee.
Page 23 - I cannot hide that some have striven, Achieving calm, to whom was given The joy that mixes man with Heaven : " Who, rowing hard against the stream, Saw distant gates of Eden gleam, And did not dream it was a dream...
Page 205 - Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Page 55 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.