The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingH. Hill, 1828 - 252 من الصفحات |
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... earth so stable , as to assure us of un- disturbed rest ; nor so powerful as to afford us constant pro- tection . The house of feasting , too often becomes an avenue to the house of mourning . Short , to the licentious , is the in ...
... earth so stable , as to assure us of un- disturbed rest ; nor so powerful as to afford us constant pro- tection . The house of feasting , too often becomes an avenue to the house of mourning . Short , to the licentious , is the in ...
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... earth can no sooner commit an injury , than a good man can make himself greater , by for giving it . SECTION IV . Motives to the practice of Gentleness . BLAIR TO promote the virtue of gentleness , we ought to view our character with an ...
... earth can no sooner commit an injury , than a good man can make himself greater , by for giving it . SECTION IV . Motives to the practice of Gentleness . BLAIR TO promote the virtue of gentleness , we ought to view our character with an ...
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... earth , they highly prize it , and with the greatest anxiety , seek to lengthen it out . 5 But when they view it in separate parcels , they appear to hold it in contempt , and squander it with inconsiderate profusion . While they ...
... earth , they highly prize it , and with the greatest anxiety , seek to lengthen it out . 5 But when they view it in separate parcels , they appear to hold it in contempt , and squander it with inconsiderate profusion . While they ...
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... permitted to go forth , till the good man was called away , by a heavenly messenger , from his devoted city . 7 When " all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth , " then lived Noah , a righteous man 52 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... permitted to go forth , till the good man was called away , by a heavenly messenger , from his devoted city . 7 When " all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth , " then lived Noah , a righteous man 52 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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... earth , " then lived Noah , a righteous man , and a preacher of righteousness . He stood alone , and was scoffed by the profane crew . But they , by the deluge , were swept away ; while on him , Providence conferred the immortal honour ...
... earth , " then lived Noah , a righteous man , and a preacher of righteousness . He stood alone , and was scoffed by the profane crew . But they , by the deluge , were swept away ; while on him , Providence conferred the immortal honour ...
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus gentle give happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er observe ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace perfect persons pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rising Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spect spirit temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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الصفحة 200 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
الصفحة 223 - 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 noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
الصفحة 23 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
الصفحة 230 - 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
الصفحة 224 - 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.
الصفحة 200 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
الصفحة 242 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit. In this or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
الصفحة 229 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar: Wait the great teacher, death, and God adore! What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
الصفحة 245 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
الصفحة 198 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.