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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Página 67
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity . In the
fullness of selfestimation , we forget what we are . We claim attentions to which
we are not entitled . We are rigorouss to offences , as if we had never offended ...
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity . In the
fullness of selfestimation , we forget what we are . We claim attentions to which
we are not entitled . We are rigorouss to offences , as if we had never offended ...
Página 143
Do we not often take a pleasure in showing our own power , and gratifying our
own pride , by degrading the notions set up by other men , and generally
respected ? Bayle . I believe we do ; and by this means it often happens , that , if
one man ...
Do we not often take a pleasure in showing our own power , and gratifying our
own pride , by degrading the notions set up by other men , and generally
respected ? Bayle . I believe we do ; and by this means it often happens , that , if
one man ...
Página 243
As if , upon a full - proportion'd dome , On swelling columns heav'd , the pride of
art ! A critic - fly , whose feeble ray scarce spreads An inch around , with blind
presumption bold , Should dare to tax the structure of the whole . . And lives the
man ...
As if , upon a full - proportion'd dome , On swelling columns heav'd , the pride of
art ! A critic - fly , whose feeble ray scarce spreads An inch around , with blind
presumption bold , Should dare to tax the structure of the whole . . And lives the
man ...
Página 281
In pride , in reas'ning 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 ...
In pride , in reas'ning 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 ...
Página 293
Oh madness ! pride ! impiety ! 3. What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or
hand , to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To
serve mere engines to the ruling mind ! Just as absurd for any part to claim To be
...
Oh madness ! pride ! impiety ! 3. What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or
hand , to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To
serve mere engines to the ruling mind ! Just as absurd for any part to claim To be
...
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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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