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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... possession is to be chiefly estimated , by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell ...
... possession is to be chiefly estimated , by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell ...
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... possession as violent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour of every object . By the storms which it raises within and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it ...
... possession as violent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour of every object . By the storms which it raises within and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it ...
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... possession of our mind , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling ... possessed of strong virtue , could enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent as- saults of fortune and the ...
... possession of our mind , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling ... possessed of strong virtue , could enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent as- saults of fortune and the ...
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... possessions can make the guilty mind happy . DIONYSIUS , the tyrant of Sicily , was far from be- ing happy , though he possessed great riches , and all the pleasures which wealth and power could procure . Damo- cles , one of his ...
... possessions can make the guilty mind happy . DIONYSIUS , the tyrant of Sicily , was far from be- ing happy , though he possessed great riches , and all the pleasures which wealth and power could procure . Damo- cles , one of his ...
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... possession of his heart . " He smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . He oppressed them during all the days of king Je- hoahaz : " and , from what is left on record of his actions , he plainly appears to have proved , what ...
... possession of his heart . " He smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . He oppressed them during all the days of king Je- hoahaz : " and , from what is left on record of his actions , he plainly appears to have proved , what ...
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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.