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 ; 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 ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 страници |
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... hope of forming a good reader , if he cannot completely articulate every ele mentary sound of the language . SECTION II . Due Degree of Slowness . In order to express ourselves distinctly , moderation is requisite with regard to the ...
... hope of forming a good reader , if he cannot completely articulate every ele mentary sound of the language . SECTION II . Due Degree of Slowness . In order to express ourselves distinctly , moderation is requisite with regard to the ...
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... Hope , the balm of life , sooths us under every misfortune . " The first and second pauses are accompanied by an inflection of voice , that gives the hearer an expectation of something further to complete the sense : the inflection ...
... Hope , the balm of life , sooths us under every misfortune . " The first and second pauses are accompanied by an inflection of voice , that gives the hearer an expectation of something further to complete the sense : the inflection ...
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... hope of future happiness is a perpetual source of con- solation to good men . Under trouble , it soothes their minds ; amidst ten ptation , it supports their virtue ; and in their dy- ing moments , enables them to say , " Oh death ...
... hope of future happiness is a perpetual source of con- solation to good men . Under trouble , it soothes their minds ; amidst ten ptation , it supports their virtue ; and in their dy- ing moments , enables them to say , " Oh death ...
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... hope of a fool than of him . He that is slow to anger , is better than the mighty ; and he that ruleth his spirit , than he that taketh a city . He that hath pity on the poor , lendeth to the Lord ; that which he hath given , will he ...
... hope of a fool than of him . He that is slow to anger , is better than the mighty ; and he that ruleth his spirit , than he that taketh a city . He that hath pity on the poor , lendeth to the Lord ; that which he hath given , will he ...
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... maintain his post : to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give up the hope that. Chap . 1 . 31 Select Sentences , & c .
... maintain his post : to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give up the hope that. Chap . 1 . 31 Select Sentences , & c .
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er oper countenance ourselves pain passions pause peace persons pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Страница 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Страница 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Страница 231 - 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.
Страница 194 - 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...
Страница 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Страница 184 - 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 church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Страница 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Страница 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Страница 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Страница 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.