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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... praise should be preserved under proper sub- ordination to the principle of duty . In itself , it is a useful motive to action , but when allowed to extend its influence too far , it corrupts the whole character , and produces guilt ...
... praise should be preserved under proper sub- ordination to the principle of duty . In itself , it is a useful motive to action , but when allowed to extend its influence too far , it corrupts the whole character , and produces guilt ...
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... praise and veneration . I have long sought content , and have not found it ; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich . " 6. Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his cham- ber for six months to deliberate how he should ...
... praise and veneration . I have long sought content , and have not found it ; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich . " 6. Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his cham- ber for six months to deliberate how he should ...
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... praise was tried , and ev- ery source of adulatory fiction was exhausted . 11. Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight , because he found himself unable to believe them . His own heart told him its frailties ; his own ...
... praise was tried , and ev- ery source of adulatory fiction was exhausted . 11. Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight , because he found himself unable to believe them . His own heart told him its frailties ; his own ...
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... praises ; and appear not to have been surpassed by any person who ever filled a throne : a conduct less rigorous , less imperious , more sincere , more indulgent to her people , would have been requisite to form a perfect character . By ...
... praises ; and appear not to have been surpassed by any person who ever filled a throne : a conduct less rigorous , less imperious , more sincere , more indulgent to her people , would have been requisite to form a perfect character . By ...
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... praise of her success ; but , instead of lessening the applause due to her , they make great addi tion to it . They owed , all of them , their advancement to her choice ; they were supported by her constancy ; and , with all their ...
... praise of her success ; but , instead of lessening the applause due to her , they make great addi tion to it . They owed , all of them , their advancement to her choice ; they were supported by her constancy ; and , with all their ...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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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.