Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading; Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary ... Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles of John Walker ... Walker's Pronouncing Key, which Governs the Vocabulary, is Prefixed to this Work |
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4 to no monarch had ever been greater or happier than Dionysius . 2. “ Hast thou
a mind , Damocles , " says the king , taste this happiness ; and to know , by
experience , what the enjoyments are , of whịch thou hast so high an idea ? " : " ?
4 to no monarch had ever been greater or happier than Dionysius . 2. “ Hast thou
a mind , Damocles , " says the king , taste this happiness ; and to know , by
experience , what the enjoyments are , of whịch thou hast so high an idea ? " : " ?
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You have strayed , my friends , from the road which conducts to felicity ; you have
dishonoured the native dignity of your souls , in allowing your wishes to terminate
on nothing higher than w rldly ideas of greatness or happiness .
You have strayed , my friends , from the road which conducts to felicity ; you have
dishonoured the native dignity of your souls , in allowing your wishes to terminate
on nothing higher than w rldly ideas of greatness or happiness .
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... spends his time in making himself wiser , and his fortune , in making others (
and therefore himsel ) happier : who , as the will and understanding are the two
ennobling faculties of the soul , thinks himself not complete , till his understanding
...
... spends his time in making himself wiser , and his fortune , in making others (
and therefore himsel ) happier : who , as the will and understanding are the two
ennobling faculties of the soul , thinks himself not complete , till his understanding
...
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The road to happiness open to all men . 1. Ou happiness ! our being's end and
aim ! Good , pleasure , ease , content ! Whate'er thy name ; That something still
which prompts th ' eternal sigh , For which we bear to live , or dare to die : Which
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The road to happiness open to all men . 1. Ou happiness ! our being's end and
aim ! Good , pleasure , ease , content ! Whate'er thy name ; That something still
which prompts th ' eternal sigh , For which we bear to live , or dare to die : Which
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Fixd to no spot is happiness sincere ; ' Tis no where to be found , or ev'ry where : '
Tis never to be bought , but always free ; And , fled from monarchs , St. John !
dwells with thee . 3. Ask of the learn'd the way . The learn'd are blind ; This bids to
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Fixd to no spot is happiness sincere ; ' Tis no where to be found , or ev'ry where : '
Tis never to be bought , but always free ; And , fled from monarchs , St. John !
dwells with thee . 3. Ask of the learn'd the way . The learn'd are blind ; This bids to
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Página 293 - 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; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 281 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 266 - Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, it gently clear'd my way, And through the pleasing snares of vice, more to be fear'd than they.
Página 112 - 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 102 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 266 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Página 244 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 132 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Página 293 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Página 281 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
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| Título | Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading; Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary ... Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles ... |
| Autores | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich |
| Compilado por | Jeremiah Goodrich |
| Editor | Samuel Newton, 1825 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 21 Sep. 2006 |
| Largo | 302 páginas |
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