The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingCalvin Spaulding, 1819 - 258 من الصفحات |
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... heart . The reader will perceive , that the compiler has been solicitous to re- commend to young persons , the perusal of the Sacred Scriptures , by in- terspersing through his work some of the most beautiful and interesting passages of ...
... heart . The reader will perceive , that the compiler has been solicitous to re- commend to young persons , the perusal of the Sacred Scriptures , by in- terspersing through his work some of the most beautiful and interesting passages of ...
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... heart . It is essential to a complete reader , that he minutely perceive the ideas , and enter into the feelings of the author , whose sentiments he professes to repeat : for how is it possible to represent clearly to others , what we ...
... heart . It is essential to a complete reader , that he minutely perceive the ideas , and enter into the feelings of the author , whose sentiments he professes to repeat : for how is it possible to represent clearly to others , what we ...
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... heart , which has not its peculiar tone , or note of the voice , by which it is to be expressed ; and which is suited exactly to the degree of internal feeling . It is chiefly in the proper use of these tones , that the life , spirit ...
... heart , which has not its peculiar tone , or note of the voice , by which it is to be expressed ; and which is suited exactly to the degree of internal feeling . It is chiefly in the proper use of these tones , that the life , spirit ...
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... heart . From our eagerness to grasp , we strangle and destroy pleasure . NOTE .-- In the first chapter , the compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of construction , and in all the diversity of punctuation . If well ...
... heart . From our eagerness to grasp , we strangle and destroy pleasure . NOTE .-- In the first chapter , the compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of construction , and in all the diversity of punctuation . If well ...
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... heart . They who have nothing to give , can often afford relief te others , by imparting what they feel . Our ignorance of what is to come , and of what is really good or evil , should correct anxiety about worldly success . The veil ...
... heart . They who have nothing to give , can often afford relief te others , by imparting what they feel . Our ignorance of what is to come , and of what is really good or evil , should correct anxiety about worldly success . The veil ...
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ages offended Antiparos appear attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comfort death Democritus desire Dioclesian Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyments envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes fall father feel folly fortune friendship give Greek language Haman happiness Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection Jugurtha king labours live look Lord lord Guilford Dudley mankind Micipsa midst mind misery nature never Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfection persons pleasing pleasure possession present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rising ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion tivated tones truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish words youth
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الصفحة 179 - her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; He gain'd from
الصفحة 13 - and which the reader should manage with judgment, or he will be apt to fall into an affected sing-song mode of pronouncing verses of this kind. The following lines exemplify the demi-caesura : *' Warms' in the sun", refreshes' in the breeze, '* Glows' in the stars", and blossoms' in the trees ; '* Lives' through all life"; extends
الصفحة 182 - BATTLE. Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. SOUND IMITATING RELUCTANCE. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? SECTION VI.
الصفحة 120 - 6. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared to thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness, both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in which I will appear to thee ; delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles,
الصفحة 28 - If thine enemy be hungry give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? He that formed the eye, shall he not see ? I have been young, and now I am old ; yet have I never seen the righteous
الصفحة 29 - Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee ; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. SECTION IX. That every day
الصفحة 163 - Divine Shepherd are with him ; and, through all the unknown periods of this and of future existence, commits himself to his guidance with secure and triumphant hope : " Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life ; and I shall dwell in the house of the
الصفحة 190 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Nor grateful ev'ning mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light—without thee is sweet.
الصفحة 225 - SECTION IV. THE GOODNESS OF PROVIDENCE. 1. The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours
الصفحة 120 - me. 5. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying, in the Hebrew tongue : Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And I said, who art thou, Lord 1 And he