The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science and Literature, to Refine the Taste, and to Improve the Moral Character. Designed for the Use of SchoolsD.F. Robinson, 1828 - 276 من الصفحات |
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... Duties , The Voyage of Life , Settlement of Virginia , BEECHER 102 MRS . OPIE 107 DR . BROWN 110 Dr. Johnson 113 Extract from " The Religion of Taste , ” Another Extract from the Same , Every man his own Fortune - Teller , Reflections ...
... Duties , The Voyage of Life , Settlement of Virginia , BEECHER 102 MRS . OPIE 107 DR . BROWN 110 Dr. Johnson 113 Extract from " The Religion of Taste , ” Another Extract from the Same , Every man his own Fortune - Teller , Reflections ...
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... duties and prospects before you . I mention this first , because , if a young man cannot be persuaded to consider what ... duty or event , they never cast forward a thought to their coming days , nor in- quire how they are to fulfil the ...
... duties and prospects before you . I mention this first , because , if a young man cannot be persuaded to consider what ... duty or event , they never cast forward a thought to their coming days , nor in- quire how they are to fulfil the ...
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... duty and happiness ; and has so connected you with the living beings around you , that they , as well as yourselves , are to feel the good or ill effects of your conduct , long after you shall have gone to render up your account at his ...
... duty and happiness ; and has so connected you with the living beings around you , that they , as well as yourselves , are to feel the good or ill effects of your conduct , long after you shall have gone to render up your account at his ...
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... duty , the more pliable he is as a mere instrument of ambi- tion and power . Not so in this country . Here every man ... duties in the course of life , which can be well performed , only in the possession of an intelligent and well ...
... duty , the more pliable he is as a mere instrument of ambi- tion and power . Not so in this country . Here every man ... duties in the course of life , which can be well performed , only in the possession of an intelligent and well ...
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... duty as members of society , and have sustained , honourably , the great interests that were committed to you ? How ani- mating too the prospect before you - how glorious the an- ticipations of the future ? All the great interests of ...
... duty as members of society , and have sustained , honourably , the great interests that were committed to you ? How ani- mating too the prospect before you - how glorious the an- ticipations of the future ? All the great interests of ...
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الصفحة 89 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
الصفحة 89 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
الصفحة 91 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
الصفحة 132 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
الصفحة 89 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
الصفحة 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
الصفحة 173 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
الصفحة 205 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity ; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course (wheel) of nature ; and it is set on fire of hell.
الصفحة 238 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
الصفحة 172 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.