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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... * The rising inflexion is denoted by the acute ; the falling , by the grave accent Though they may often coincide , they are , in 10 INTRODUCTION . The influence of devotion on the happiness of life, Schemes of life often illusory,
... * The rising inflexion is denoted by the acute ; the falling , by the grave accent Though they may often coincide , they are , in 10 INTRODUCTION . The influence of devotion on the happiness of life, Schemes of life often illusory,
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... happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness to ...
... happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness to ...
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... happiness . reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and " the night cometh , when no man can work . " To sensual persons , hardly any thing is what it appears to be ; and what flatters most , is always farthest ...
... happiness . reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and " the night cometh , when no man can work . " To sensual persons , hardly any thing is what it appears to be ; and what flatters most , is always farthest ...
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... happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends gene- rally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable ...
... happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends gene- rally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable ...
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... happiness is a perpetual source of consolation to good men . Under trouble , it soothes their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their virtue ; and , in their dying moments , enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ? O ...
... happiness is a perpetual source of consolation to good men . Under trouble , it soothes their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their virtue ; and , in their dying moments , enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ? O ...
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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.