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 WorkSamuel Newton, 1825 - 302 páginas |
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... youth to gray hairs , and from the peasant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to crim- inal deeds . Yet those riches , when obtained , may very possibly overwhelm us with unforeseen miseries . Those pleasures ...
... youth to gray hairs , and from the peasant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to crim- inal deeds . Yet those riches , when obtained , may very possibly overwhelm us with unforeseen miseries . Those pleasures ...
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... youth . 3. This extraordinary young person , besides the solid endowments of piety and virtue , possessed the most en gaging disposition , the most accomplished parts ; and be- ing of an equal age with king Edward VI . she had re ...
... youth . 3. This extraordinary young person , besides the solid endowments of piety and virtue , possessed the most en gaging disposition , the most accomplished parts ; and be- ing of an equal age with king Edward VI . she had re ...
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... youth , beauty , innocence , and noble birth , changed their orders , and gave directions that she should be beheaded within the verge of the Tower . 13. She saw her husband led to execution ; and hav- ing given him from the window some ...
... youth , beauty , innocence , and noble birth , changed their orders , and gave directions that she should be beheaded within the verge of the Tower . 13. She saw her husband led to execution ; and hav- ing given him from the window some ...
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... youth ; many of whom pressed forward with the liveliest expression of ardour in their countenance , though the way was in many places steep and difficult . 3. I observed , that those , who had but just began to climb the hill , thought ...
... youth ; many of whom pressed forward with the liveliest expression of ardour in their countenance , though the way was in many places steep and difficult . 3. I observed , that those , who had but just began to climb the hill , thought ...
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... youth , full of vigour , and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope , with gaiety and with diligence , and trav- el on a while in the direct road of piety towards the man- sion of rest . 15. " In a short time , we ...
... youth , full of vigour , and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope , with gaiety and with diligence , and trav- el on a while in the direct road of piety towards the man- sion of rest . 15. " In a short time , we ...
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Abdalonymus Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoyment ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection Jugurtha kind king labour live look Lord mankind manner Masinissa means ment mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature ness never niscience Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace person philosopher pleasure possession pow'r praise pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rising Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily Sidon smile sorrow soul sound spect spirit temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion tones truth vanity vice virtue voice wisdom wise words young youth
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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