The fields look freshly and gayly since the rain.
The book is printed very neat, and on fine wove paper.
I have recently been in Washington, where I have seen Gen. Andrew
Jackson, he who is now president.
Take the two first, and, if you please, the three last.
The Chinese wall is thirty foot high.
It is an union supported by an hypothesis, merely.
I have saw him who you wrote to; and he would have came back with
me, if he could.
Not one in fifty of those who call themselves deists, understand the
nature of the religion which they reject.
If thou studiest diligently, thou will become learned.
Education is not attended to properly in Spain.
He know'd it was his duty; and he ought, therefore, to do it.
He has little more of the great man besides the title.
Richard acted very independent on the occasion.
We have done no more than it was our duty to have done.
The time of my friend entering on business, soon arrived.
His speech is the most perfect specimen I ever saw.
Calumny and detraction are sparks which, if you do not blow, they
will go out of themselves.
Those two authors have each of them their merit.
Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lies in three words, health, peace, and competence.
A great mass of rocks thrown together by the hand of nature with
wildness and confusion, strike the mind with more grandeur, than if
they were adjusted to one another with the accuratest symmetry.
A lampoon or a satire do not carry in them robbery or murder.
The side A, with the sides B and C, compose the triangle.
If some persons opportunities were never so favorable, they would be
too indolent to improve.
It is reported that the governor will come here to-morrow.
Beauty and innocence should be never separated.
Extravagance and folly may reduce you to a situation where you will
have much to fear and little to hope.
Not one in fifty of our modern infidels are thoroughly versed in
their knowledge of the Scriptures.
Virtue and mutual confidence is the soul of friendship. Where these
are wanting, disgust or hatred often follow little differences.
An army present a painful sight to a feeling mind.
To do good to them that hate us, and, on no occasion, to seek
revenge, is the duty of a Christian.
The polite, accomplished libertine, is but miserable amidst all his
pleasures: the rude inhabitant of Lapland is happier than him.
There are principles in man, which ever have, and ever will, incline
him to offend.
This is one of the duties which requires great circumspection.
They that honor me, them will I honor.
Every church and sect have opinions peculiar to themselves.
Pericles gained such an ascendant over the minds of the Athenians,
that he might be said to attain a monarchical power in Athens.
Thou, Lord, who hath permitted affliction to come upon us, shall
deliver us from it in due time.
That writer has given us an account of the manner in which
Christianity has formerly been propagated among the heathens.
Though the measure be mysterious, it is not unworthy of your
attention.
In his conduct was treachery, and in his words, faithless
professions. After I visited Europe, I returned to America.