Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading; Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary ... Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles of John Walker ... Walker's Pronouncing Key, which Governs the Vocabulary, is Prefixed to this WorkSamuel Newton, 1825 - 302 من الصفحات |
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... wise man is happy , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be deter- mined entirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ...
... wise man is happy , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be deter- mined entirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ...
الصفحة 26
... wise man , and build his house on the rock , and not on the sand , should contemplate hu- man life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your ...
... wise man , and build his house on the rock , and not on the sand , should contemplate hu- man life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your ...
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... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed floating on the ...
... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed floating on the ...
الصفحة 38
... wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebukes is better than se- cret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? ' T'here is more - hope of a fool than of him . He that is ...
... wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebukes is better than se- cret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? ' T'here is more - hope of a fool than of him . He that is ...
الصفحة 40
... wise its pleasures and its joys . We should cherish sentiments of charity towards all men . The Author of all good nourishes much pietye and virtue in hearts that are unknown to us ; and beholds repentance ready to spring up among many ...
... wise its pleasures and its joys . We should cherish sentiments of charity towards all men . The Author of all good nourishes much pietye and virtue in hearts that are unknown to us ; and beholds repentance ready to spring up among many ...
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Abdalonymus Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoyment ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection Jugurtha kind king labour live look Lord mankind manner Masinissa means ment mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature ness never niscience Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace person philosopher pleasure possession pow'r praise pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rising Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily Sidon smile sorrow soul sound spect spirit temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion tones truth vanity vice virtue voice wisdom wise words young youth
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الصفحة 293 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
الصفحة 281 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
الصفحة 266 - Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, it gently clear'd my way, And through the pleasing snares of vice, more to be fear'd than they.
الصفحة 112 - 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 102 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
الصفحة 266 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
الصفحة 244 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
الصفحة 132 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
الصفحة 293 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
الصفحة 281 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th