Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Modern. To which are Added, Some Biographical Sketches from the Earliest Ages of the World to Nearly the Present Time. Also, Extensive Scripture Lessons. ...Mahlon Day, 1827 |
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الصفحة 9
... tear which nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave . p . 28 . Shall I , too , weep ? where then is fortitude ? And fortitude abandon'd , where is man ? I know the terms on which he sees the light : He that is born ...
... tear which nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave . p . 28 . Shall I , too , weep ? where then is fortitude ? And fortitude abandon'd , where is man ? I know the terms on which he sees the light : He that is born ...
الصفحة 17
... tears indulg'd , indeed deserve our shame . p . 59 . At thy friend's expense be wise ; Lean not on earth ; ' twill pierce thee to the heart ; A broken reed , at best ; but , oft , a spear ; On its sharp point peace bleeds , and hope ...
... tears indulg'd , indeed deserve our shame . p . 59 . At thy friend's expense be wise ; Lean not on earth ; ' twill pierce thee to the heart ; A broken reed , at best ; but , oft , a spear ; On its sharp point peace bleeds , and hope ...
الصفحة 19
... tear , While reason and religion , better taught , ' Congratulate the dead . * * Birth's feeble cry , and death's deep , dismal groan , Are slender tributes low - taxt nature pays For mighty gain : The gain of each , a life ! But , the ...
... tear , While reason and religion , better taught , ' Congratulate the dead . * * Birth's feeble cry , and death's deep , dismal groan , Are slender tributes low - taxt nature pays For mighty gain : The gain of each , a life ! But , the ...
الصفحة 54
... tears , Thus fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little when she paints thee thus . Doing good , Disinterested good , is not our trade . God made the country , and man made the town . What wonder then that health ...
... tears , Thus fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little when she paints thee thus . Doing good , Disinterested good , is not our trade . God made the country , and man made the town . What wonder then that health ...
الصفحة 77
... tears ) And feel a parent's presence no restraint . But not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good , Is cause of half the poverty we feel , And makes the world the wilderness it is . Stillness ...
... tears ) And feel a parent's presence no restraint . But not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good , Is cause of half the poverty we feel , And makes the world the wilderness it is . Stillness ...
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animals Art thou beauty Behold blessings blest bliss charming group charms cure death delight Descartes divine dreams earth employed eternal ev'ry fear feeble feel felicity Finland fool form'd frequently Gauls gives Greenland hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart heav'n honours hope hour human immortal labour land life's live Louis XIV man's mankind means mind miserable moral nature nature's Nero never o'er once ourselves pain passions peace plant pleasure plebian poor pow'r praise pride quadruped racter reason religion render replied repose rest rich Samaritan scene scorn sentiment shade shine sigh smiles Socrates soul spleen storm sublime sublunary taste teach tears tempest thee thine thing thou thought tion toil tree treme truth Turenne vice virtue virtuous wisdom wise wish worlds unknown wretched
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الصفحة 67 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
الصفحة 108 - Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
الصفحة 102 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
الصفحة 9 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...
الصفحة 118 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
الصفحة 172 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
الصفحة 58 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
الصفحة 54 - 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 99 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
الصفحة 57 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.