The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingLincoln & Edmands, 1824 - 273 páginas |
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... desires . " The Mexican figures , or picture writing , represent things , not words — they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the under- standing . " Some sentences are so full and comprehensive , t hat almost every word is ...
... desires . " The Mexican figures , or picture writing , represent things , not words — they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the under- standing . " Some sentences are so full and comprehensive , t hat almost every word is ...
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... desire to fix the hearer's attention . Sometimes , before such a thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature . Such pauses have the same effect as a strong emphasis ; and are subject to the same rules ; especially to the ...
... desire to fix the hearer's attention . Sometimes , before such a thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature . Such pauses have the same effect as a strong emphasis ; and are subject to the same rules ; especially to the ...
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... desires and passions , can tell how far they may carry him . Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be attained , when the business of the world is tempered with thought- fal and serious retreat . He who would act like a wise man ...
... desires and passions , can tell how far they may carry him . Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be attained , when the business of the world is tempered with thought- fal and serious retreat . He who would act like a wise man ...
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... desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many accomplishments , and many vir- jues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and leaves it open to every pleasing sensation . Moderate and simple ...
... desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many accomplishments , and many vir- jues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and leaves it open to every pleasing sensation . Moderate and simple ...
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... desires to see others happy , make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed ; and remember that every moment of delay , takes away something from the value of his benefaction . And let him who proposes his own happiness reflect ...
... desires to see others happy , make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed ; and remember that every moment of delay , takes away something from the value of his benefaction . And let him who proposes his own happiness reflect ...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ... Lindley Murray Vista de fragmentos - 1851 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 208 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Página 219 - Had in her 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 17 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Página 137 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Página 96 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 72 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 108 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Página 202 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in .the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
Página 281 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Página 17 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, 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...