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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... pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learned the proper seats of these accents , it is an important rule , to give every word just the same accent in reading , as in common discourse . May persons err in this respect ...
... pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learned the proper seats of these accents , it is an important rule , to give every word just the same accent in reading , as in common discourse . May persons err in this respect ...
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... pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty ...
... pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty ...
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... passing the love of women . " 66 Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near Zutphen , was wound- ed by a musket ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a half , to the camp ; and being fairt with the loss ...
... passing the love of women . " 66 Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near Zutphen , was wound- ed by a musket ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a half , to the camp ; and being fairt with the loss ...
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... passing at that mo- ment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can hardly procure ...
... passing at that mo- ment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can hardly procure ...
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... pass . Hazael ascended the throne , and ambition took possession of his heart . smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . He oppres- sed them during all the days of king Jehoahaz : " and , from what is left on record of his ...
... pass . Hazael ascended the throne , and ambition took possession of his heart . smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . He oppres- sed them during all the days of king Jehoahaz : " and , from what is left on record of his ...
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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.