The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingS. Probasco, 1829 - 209 pages |
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... observe , that the Reader and the Sequel , be- sides teaching to read accurately , and inculcating many important sen- timents , may be considered as auxiliaries to the author's English Gram- mar ; as practical illustrations of the ...
... observe , that the Reader and the Sequel , be- sides teaching to read accurately , and inculcating many important sen- timents , may be considered as auxiliaries to the author's English Gram- mar ; as practical illustrations of the ...
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... observe that , in the existing publications designed for the perusal of young persons , the preponderance is greatly on the side of gay and amusing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medium of improvement . When the ...
... observe that , in the existing publications designed for the perusal of young persons , the preponderance is greatly on the side of gay and amusing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medium of improvement . When the ...
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... observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side It is obvious that a lifeless , drawling manner of reading , which al- lows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such ...
... observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side It is obvious that a lifeless , drawling manner of reading , which al- lows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such ...
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... observation , which it may not be improper here to make . In the English language , every word which consists of more sylla- bles than one , has one accented syllable . The accents rest some- times on the vowel , sometimes on the ...
... observation , which it may not be improper here to make . In the English language , every word which consists of more sylla- bles than one , has one accented syllable . The accents rest some- times on the vowel , sometimes on the ...
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... observe , that the mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activity , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communica- tion being not ...
... observe , that the mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activity , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communica- tion being not ...
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Page 184 - Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels...
Page 188 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 184 - On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. 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.
Page 149 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 204 - 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.
Page 158 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 206 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 29 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 189 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 205 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring : Flings from the sun direct the flaming day ; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth the grateful change revolves, With transport touches all the springs of life.