The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...Lincoln and Edmands, 1815 - 264 من الصفحات |
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... objects : to improve youth in the art of reading ; to meliorate their language and sentiments ; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue . The pieces selected , not only give exercise to a great variety ...
... objects : to improve youth in the art of reading ; to meliorate their language and sentiments ; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue . The pieces selected , not only give exercise to a great variety ...
الصفحة xiv
... object , that they regulate his pronunciation . On this head , the following direction may be of ufe : " Though in read- ing , great attention fhould be paid to the ftops , yet a greater fhould be given to the sense ; and their ...
... object , that they regulate his pronunciation . On this head , the following direction may be of ufe : " Though in read- ing , great attention fhould be paid to the ftops , yet a greater fhould be given to the sense ; and their ...
الصفحة 25
... objects of religion , no heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his fenfibility . When , upon rational and fober inquiry , we have estab- lished our principles , let ...
... objects of religion , no heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his fenfibility . When , upon rational and fober inquiry , we have estab- lished our principles , let ...
الصفحة 27
... object on which it fhines ; a fenforious difpofition cafts every character into the darkeft fhade it will bear . Many men mistake the love , for the practice of virtue ; and are not fo much good men , as the friends of goodness ...
... object on which it fhines ; a fenforious difpofition cafts every character into the darkeft fhade it will bear . Many men mistake the love , for the practice of virtue ; and are not fo much good men , as the friends of goodness ...
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... object of his refentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages , been reprefented as placed on the fummit of a hill ; in the afcent of which , labour is requifite , and difficulties are to be furmounted ; and where a conductor is ...
... object of his refentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages , been reprefented as placed on the fummit of a hill ; in the afcent of which , labour is requifite , and difficulties are to be furmounted ; and where a conductor is ...
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الصفحة 229 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
الصفحة 241 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
الصفحة 208 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
الصفحة 211 - 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 190 - 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...
الصفحة 255 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
الصفحة 226 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
الصفحة 176 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
الصفحة 225 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
الصفحة 130 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come...