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 ReadingEvert Duyckinck, 1810 - 231 страници |
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... mean- ing of what we read ; and the habit thence acquired , of doing this with facility , both when reading silently and ... means , than the force of example influencing the imitative powers of the learner . Some rules and principles on ...
... mean- ing of what we read ; and the habit thence acquired , of doing this with facility , both when reading silently and ... means , than the force of example influencing the imitative powers of the learner . Some rules and principles on ...
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... means be suffi cient to attend to the points used in printing : for these are far from marking all the pauses , which ought to be made in reading . A me- chanical attention to these resting places , has perhaps been one cause of ...
... means be suffi cient to attend to the points used in printing : for these are far from marking all the pauses , which ought to be made in reading . A me- chanical attention to these resting places , has perhaps been one cause of ...
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... mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their per- sons , fortunes , and dignities , ) I presume the self - love , com- mon to human nature , would generally make them prefer 24 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their per- sons , fortunes , and dignities , ) I presume the self - love , com- mon to human nature , would generally make them prefer 24 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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... means >> agreeable to her . She even refused to accept of the crown ; pleaded the preferable right of the two princesses ; expressed her dread of the consequences attending an enteprize so dan - s gerous , 5 , not to say so criminal ...
... means >> agreeable to her . She even refused to accept of the crown ; pleaded the preferable right of the two princesses ; expressed her dread of the consequences attending an enteprize so dan - s gerous , 5 , not to say so criminal ...
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... means to unite pleasure with business , and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fa- tigues . He , therefore , still continued to walk for a time , without the least remission of his ardour , except that he was ...
... means to unite pleasure with business , and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fa- tigues . He , therefore , still continued to walk for a time , without the least remission of his ardour , except that he was ...
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ADHERBAL ANTIPAROS appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cendant character cheer comforts dark death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha king labours LADY JANE GREY live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Страница 225 - 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.
Страница 202 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Страница 178 - 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.
Страница 238 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Страница 219 - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
Страница 189 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Страница 118 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews. Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Страница 185 - He spied far off upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent :
Страница 238 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Страница 248 - 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.