The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best Writers. Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 pages |
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... earth so stable , as to assure us of andisturbed rest ; nor so powerful , as to afford us constant protection . The house of feasting too often becomes an avenue to the house of mourning . Short , to the licentious , is the interval ...
... earth so stable , as to assure us of andisturbed rest ; nor so powerful , as to afford us constant protection . The house of feasting too often becomes an avenue to the house of mourning . Short , to the licentious , is the interval ...
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... earth can no sooner commit an injury , than a good man can make himself greater , by forgiving it . BLAIR . SECTION IV . Motives to the practice of gentleness . To promote the virtue of gentleness , we ought to view our character with ...
... earth can no sooner commit an injury , than a good man can make himself greater , by forgiving it . BLAIR . SECTION IV . Motives to the practice of gentleness . To promote the virtue of gentleness , we ought to view our character with ...
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... earth , they highly prize it , and with the greatest anxiety seek to lengthen it out . But when they view it in separate parcels , they appear to hold it in con tempt , and squander it with inconsiderate profusion . While they complain ...
... earth , they highly prize it , and with the greatest anxiety seek to lengthen it out . But when they view it in separate parcels , they appear to hold it in con tempt , and squander it with inconsiderate profusion . While they complain ...
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... earth , " then lived Noah , a righteous man , and a preacher of righteousness . He stood alone , and was scoff- ed by the profane crew . But they by the deluge were swept away ; while on him , Providence conferred the immortal ho- nour ...
... earth , " then lived Noah , a righteous man , and a preacher of righteousness . He stood alone , and was scoff- ed by the profane crew . But they by the deluge were swept away ; while on him , Providence conferred the immortal ho- nour ...
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... earth , if this be beyond me , it is not possible . What consequence then follows ; or can there be any other than this - IfI seek an interest of my own detached from that of others , I seek an interest which is chimerical , and which ...
... earth , if this be beyond me , it is not possible . What consequence then follows ; or can there be any other than this - IfI seek an interest of my own detached from that of others , I seek an interest which is chimerical , and which ...
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Page 126 - 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.
Page 207 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 255 - 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 204 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Page 255 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 232 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
Page 254 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 195 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 196 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
Page 217 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.