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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... Human Existence , Rebellion in the State Prison , Specimen of the Eloquence of James Otis , of Anger , Nancy and Rose , Paraphrase of the Nineteenth Psalm , The Sacrifice of Abraham , Retirement , Duelling , Moral Sublimity , HALE 115 ...
... Human Existence , Rebellion in the State Prison , Specimen of the Eloquence of James Otis , of Anger , Nancy and Rose , Paraphrase of the Nineteenth Psalm , The Sacrifice of Abraham , Retirement , Duelling , Moral Sublimity , HALE 115 ...
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... human affairs . To them you commend all that you hold most dear on earth , the high interests of the church and society , -hap- py in the assurance , that they will sustain the sacred trust and transmit the precious inheritance entire ...
... human affairs . To them you commend all that you hold most dear on earth , the high interests of the church and society , -hap- py in the assurance , that they will sustain the sacred trust and transmit the precious inheritance entire ...
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... human frame , burning cities and villages , turning fruitful fields into a wilderness , and , by every oth- er act of violence , carrying death and destruction through the world . And , if water , air , and the light of heaven , had ...
... human frame , burning cities and villages , turning fruitful fields into a wilderness , and , by every oth- er act of violence , carrying death and destruction through the world . And , if water , air , and the light of heaven , had ...
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... human heart , and thus make men proficients in the science of self - government ; and , finally , that they teach him to aspire after a conformity to a Being of infinite ho- liness , and fill him with hopes infinitely more purifying ...
... human heart , and thus make men proficients in the science of self - government ; and , finally , that they teach him to aspire after a conformity to a Being of infinite ho- liness , and fill him with hopes infinitely more purifying ...
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... human race . He needed not a law of state , to force Grudging submission to the law of God ; The law of love was in his heart alive : What he possessed , he counted not his own , But like a faithful steward , in a house Of public alms ...
... human race . He needed not a law of state , to force Grudging submission to the law of God ; The law of love was in his heart alive : What he possessed , he counted not his own , But like a faithful steward , in a house Of public alms ...
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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.