Becr. 4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lords, 1770, on the bill for preventing the delays of justice, by CHAPTER IX. 9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings, 10. Schemes of life often illusory, 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility, 23. Virtue, when deeply rooted, is not subject to the in- 24. The speech of Fabricius, a Roman ambassador, to Select Sentences and Paragraphs. SECT. 1. Short and easy sentences, 2. Verses in which the lines are of different length, CHAPTER IV. JECT. 4 Care of birds for their young, 5. Liberty and slavery contrasted," 6. Charity. A paraphrase on the 13th chapter of the 7. Picture of a good man, 8. The pleasures of retirement, 219 9. The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well directed imagination, 220 CHAPTER V. Patheric Pieces. SECT. 1. The hermit, 2. The beggar's petition, 3. Unhappy close of life, 4. Elegy to pity, 5. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, 6 Gratitude, 7. A man perishing in the snow; from whence reflec- 8. A morning hymn, SecT 1. Ode to Content, CHAPTER VI. Promiscuous Pieces. 2. The shepherd and the philosopher, 3. The road to happiness open to all men, b. The Creators works attest his greatness 7. The pursuit of happiness often ill directed 238 240 1. Human frailty, 9. Providence vindicated in the present state of man, 20. Selfishness reproved, 242 243 244 12. Ode to peace, 2-15 13. Ode to adversity, ib PART I. PIECES IN PROSE CHAPTER I NELECT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS. SECTION I. DILIGENCE, industry, and proper improvement of time, are material duties of the young. The acquisition of knowledge is one of the most honourable occupations of youth. Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess, virtue is requisite, in order to their shining with proper lustre. Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood. Sincerity and truth form the basis of every virtue. Disappointments and distress are often blessings in disguise. Change and alteration form the very essence of the world. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. In order to acquire a capacity for happiness, it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders. Whatever purifies, fortifies also the heart. From our eagerness to grasp, we strangle and destroy pleasure. NOTE. In the first chapter, the compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of construction, and in all the diversity of punctuation. If well practised upon, he presumes they will fully prepare the young reader for the various pauses, inflections, and modulations of voice, which the succeeding pieces require. The Author's "English Exercises," under the head of Punctuation, will afford the learner additional scope for im proving himself in reading sentences and paragraphs variously con structed. |