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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... seem te- dious to them , who , perhaps , have the unreasonableness to complain of the shortness of life in general . When the former part of our life has been nothing but vanity , the latter end of it can be nothing but vexation . In ...
... seem te- dious to them , who , perhaps , have the unreasonableness to complain of the shortness of life in general . When the former part of our life has been nothing but vanity , the latter end of it can be nothing but vexation . In ...
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... seem resolved to live only for the present mo- ment and for present gratification . As if the whole of their existence were comprised in the passing hour , and they had no concern in any future duty or event , they never cast forward a ...
... seem resolved to live only for the present mo- ment and for present gratification . As if the whole of their existence were comprised in the passing hour , and they had no concern in any future duty or event , they never cast forward a ...
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... seem , let me tell you , there is much in it that is fitted to make you serious and thoughtful . You cannot take a just view of your state and prospects , without feeling that you are placed in circumstances of deep and solemn interest ...
... seem , let me tell you , there is much in it that is fitted to make you serious and thoughtful . You cannot take a just view of your state and prospects , without feeling that you are placed in circumstances of deep and solemn interest ...
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... seem'd to dwell Where'er he moved - the welcome and the bless'd ! -Now gaze ! and bear the silent unto rest ! Look yet on him , whose eye Meets yours no more , in sadness or in mirth ! Was he not fair amidst the sons of earth , The ...
... seem'd to dwell Where'er he moved - the welcome and the bless'd ! -Now gaze ! and bear the silent unto rest ! Look yet on him , whose eye Meets yours no more , in sadness or in mirth ! Was he not fair amidst the sons of earth , The ...
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... seem to be passing away life without object and without aim . The consequence is , their efforts are few and feeble ; they are not waked up to any thing great or distinguished ; and therefore fail to acquire a character of decided worth ...
... seem to be passing away life without object and without aim . The consequence is , their efforts are few and feeble ; they are not waked up to any thing great or distinguished ; and therefore fail to acquire a character of decided worth ...
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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.