The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect ; Improve Their Language and Sentiments ; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 páginas |
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... hand . We shall conclude this section with the following rule , for the tones that indicate the passions and emotions . " In reading , let all your tones of expression be borrowed from those of common speech , but , in some degree ...
... hand . We shall conclude this section with the following rule , for the tones that indicate the passions and emotions . " In reading , let all your tones of expression be borrowed from those of common speech , but , in some degree ...
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... hand of mercy . The best preparation for all the uncertainties of futurity , consists in a well ordered mind , a good conscience , and a cheerful submission to the will of Heaven . SECTION HI .. The chief misfortunes that befall us in ...
... hand of mercy . The best preparation for all the uncertainties of futurity , consists in a well ordered mind , a good conscience , and a cheerful submission to the will of Heaven . SECTION HI .. The chief misfortunes that befall us in ...
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... hand ; and in her left hand , riches and honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her paths are peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwel gether in unity ! It is like precious ointment ; like t of Hermon ...
... hand ; and in her left hand , riches and honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her paths are peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwel gether in unity ! It is like precious ointment ; like t of Hermon ...
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... hand to the table . He throws off the garland of roses . He hastens to remove from dangerous situation ; and earnestly entreats the king to to his former humble condition , having no desire longer a happiness so terrible . Badevice ...
... hand to the table . He throws off the garland of roses . He hastens to remove from dangerous situation ; and earnestly entreats the king to to his former humble condition , having no desire longer a happiness so terrible . Badevice ...
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... hands on Mordecai alone . " 4 Personal revenge was not sufficient to satisfy him . So violent and black were his passions , that he resolved to ex- terminate the whole nation to which Mordecai belonged . Abusing , for his cruel purpose ...
... hands on Mordecai alone . " 4 Personal revenge was not sufficient to satisfy him . So violent and black were his passions , that he resolved to ex- terminate the whole nation to which Mordecai belonged . Abusing , for his cruel purpose ...
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Términos y frases comunes
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er oper countenance ourselves pain passions pause peace persons pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Página 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Página 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Página 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Página 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Página 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.