The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science and Literature, to Refine the Taste, and to Improve the Moral Character. Designed for the Use of SchoolsD.F. Robinson, 1828 - 276 страници |
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... avoided by the Observation of Order , The Art of Printing , WEBSTER 194 WAYLAND 199 A. DICKINSON 202 Bible 204 205 66 DENNIE 206 Blair ib . Dick 208 Advantages of Adversity to our Forefathers , Miseries of Book VI CONTENTS .
... avoided by the Observation of Order , The Art of Printing , WEBSTER 194 WAYLAND 199 A. DICKINSON 202 Bible 204 205 66 DENNIE 206 Blair ib . Dick 208 Advantages of Adversity to our Forefathers , Miseries of Book VI CONTENTS .
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... Bible , Night , Christian Forbearance , An Oriental Bazaar , Brutus ' Speech , The Miracle , The Blind Preacher , " I have seen an End of all Perfection The Spells of Home , Happiness , The Mississippi Steam - Boats , Falls of Niagara ...
... Bible , Night , Christian Forbearance , An Oriental Bazaar , Brutus ' Speech , The Miracle , The Blind Preacher , " I have seen an End of all Perfection The Spells of Home , Happiness , The Mississippi Steam - Boats , Falls of Niagara ...
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... Bible have the power of awa- kening an intense moral feeling in man under every va- riety of character , learned or ignorant , civilized or savage ; that they make bad men good , and send a pulse of health- ful feeling through all the ...
... Bible have the power of awa- kening an intense moral feeling in man under every va- riety of character , learned or ignorant , civilized or savage ; that they make bad men good , and send a pulse of health- ful feeling through all the ...
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... Bible is not sealed from the eyes of those for whom it was intend- ed ; and the best charities and noblest powers of the soul degraded by the terrors of a dark and artful su- perstition ? To whom do we owe it , that in this favoured ...
... Bible is not sealed from the eyes of those for whom it was intend- ed ; and the best charities and noblest powers of the soul degraded by the terrors of a dark and artful su- perstition ? To whom do we owe it , that in this favoured ...
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... bible behind your back ? Will you con- fide in men void of the fear of God and destitute of mor- al principle ? Will you intrust life to murderers - liber- ty to despots ? Are you patriots , and will you constitute those legislators who ...
... bible behind your back ? Will you con- fide in men void of the fear of God and destitute of mor- al principle ? Will you intrust life to murderers - liber- ty to despots ? Are you patriots , and will you constitute those legislators who ...
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Страница 89 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Страница 89 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Страница 91 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Страница 132 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
Страница 89 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Страница 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Страница 173 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
Страница 205 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity ; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course (wheel) of nature ; and it is set on fire of hell.
Страница 238 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Страница 172 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; 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 churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.