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 ; 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 ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 էջ |
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... suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe any tendency to treat religion or morals with disrespect and levity , let us hold it to be a sure indica- tion of a perverted ...
... suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe any tendency to treat religion or morals with disrespect and levity , let us hold it to be a sure indica- tion of a perverted ...
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... suffered to lie waste by negli- gence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out for show , rather than use . When Aristotle was asked , " What a man could gain by telling a falsehood , " he replied , " not to be credited when he ...
... suffered to lie waste by negli- gence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out for show , rather than use . When Aristotle was asked , " What a man could gain by telling a falsehood , " he replied , " not to be credited when he ...
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... suffered in common , little room is left for envy . There is more occa- sion for pity and sympathy , and inclination to assist each other . At our first setting out in life , when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares , when ...
... suffered in common , little room is left for envy . There is more occa- sion for pity and sympathy , and inclination to assist each other . At our first setting out in life , when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares , when ...
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... above the princes and servants of the king 8. He said , moreover , Yea , Esther the queen suffered no man to come in with the king , to the banquet that she had prepared , but myself ; and to - morrow also Chap . 2 . 25 Narrative Pieces .
... above the princes and servants of the king 8. He said , moreover , Yea , Esther the queen suffered no man to come in with the king , to the banquet that she had prepared , but myself ; and to - morrow also Chap . 2 . 25 Narrative Pieces .
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... suffering its fatigues . 5. He therefore , still continued to walk for a time , with- out the least remission of his ardour , except that he was sometimes tempted to stop by the music of the birds , which the heat had assembled in the ...
... suffering its fatigues . 5. He therefore , still continued to walk for a time , with- out the least remission of his ardour , except that he was sometimes tempted to stop by the music of the birds , which the heat had assembled in the ...
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er oper countenance ourselves pain passions pause peace persons pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Էջ 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Էջ 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Էջ 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Էջ 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Էջ 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Էջ 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Էջ 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Էջ 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.