The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingLincoln & Edmands, 1824 - 273 من الصفحات |
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... possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disappoint . ing , is in constant search of care , solicitude , remorse , and confusion . " To advise the ignorant , relieve the needy ...
... possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disappoint . ing , is in constant search of care , solicitude , remorse , and confusion . " To advise the ignorant , relieve the needy ...
الصفحة 20
... possession is to be chiefly estimated by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and give loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell how ...
... possession is to be chiefly estimated by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and give loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell how ...
الصفحة 24
... possession , as vio- lent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour of every object . By the storm which it raises within , and by the mischiet which it occasions without , it ...
... possession , as vio- lent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour of every object . By the storm which it raises within , and by the mischiet which it occasions without , it ...
الصفحة 33
... possession of our minds , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion , which generally affords the first introduction to vice . The irregular grat- ification into which it ...
... possession of our minds , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion , which generally affords the first introduction to vice . The irregular grat- ification into which it ...
الصفحة 34
... possessed of strong virtue , could enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that mis- ery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our ...
... possessed of strong virtue , could enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that mis- ery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our ...
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الصفحة 208 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
الصفحة 219 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
الصفحة 17 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
الصفحة 137 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
الصفحة 96 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
الصفحة 72 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
الصفحة 108 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
الصفحة 202 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in .the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
الصفحة 281 - 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, Heav'n 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 17 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...