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; to 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 ReadingC. Spaulding, 1821 - 253 páginas |
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... all the uncertainties of futurity , consists in a well ordered mind , a good conscience , and a cheerful submission to the will of heaven . SECTION II . THE chief misfortunes that befal us in THE ENGLISH READER . PART I.
... all the uncertainties of futurity , consists in a well ordered mind , a good conscience , and a cheerful submission to the will of heaven . SECTION II . THE chief misfortunes that befal us in THE ENGLISH READER . PART I.
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... Heaven . Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends gen- erally in misery . ; Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious but an ill one more contemptible ...
... Heaven . Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends gen- erally in misery . ; Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious but an ill one more contemptible ...
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... heaven ? Can we look for clemency or gentleness from our Judge , when we are so backward to show it to our own brethren ? Let us also accustom ourselves , to reflect on the small moment of those things , which are the usual incentives ...
... heaven ? Can we look for clemency or gentleness from our Judge , when we are so backward to show it to our own brethren ? Let us also accustom ourselves , to reflect on the small moment of those things , which are the usual incentives ...
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... heaven . If we delay till to - morrow what ought to be done to day , we overcharge the morrow with a burden which belongs not to it . We load the wheels of time , and prevent them from carrying us along smoothly , He who every morning ...
... heaven . If we delay till to - morrow what ought to be done to day , we overcharge the morrow with a burden which belongs not to it . We load the wheels of time , and prevent them from carrying us along smoothly , He who every morning ...
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... heaven . He continued to walk with God , " when the world apostatized from him . He pleased God , and was be- loved of him ; so that living among sinners , he was trans- lated to heaven without seeing death ; " yea , speedily was he ...
... heaven . He continued to walk with God , " when the world apostatized from him . He pleased God , and was be- loved of him ; so that living among sinners , he was trans- lated to heaven without seeing death ; " yea , speedily was he ...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ... Vista de fragmentos - 1819 |
Términos y frases comunes
affections ancholy Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honor hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labors lence live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna mountains nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit tears temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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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 249 - Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Página 190 - ... sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was...
Página 196 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Página 230 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 205 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 113 - And now I stand, and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers; unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come; for which hope's sake, King Agrippa I am accused of the Jews.
Página 225 - Join voices, all ye living Souls; ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk » The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Página 250 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart...
Página 244 - Through this day's life or death ! This day, be bread and peace my lot All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let Thy will be done.