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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... stand forth , bright and animating examples , of what can be accomplished by resolution and effort . Indeed , my friends , in the formation of character , per- sonal exertion is the first , the second and the third virtue . Nothing ...
... stand forth , bright and animating examples , of what can be accomplished by resolution and effort . Indeed , my friends , in the formation of character , per- sonal exertion is the first , the second and the third virtue . Nothing ...
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... stands on firm and elevated ground ; his heart is fixed , trusting in the Lord ; and he feels within him the workings of a principle , which , like the hand of God , will not let him go ; but amidst all the assaults of the world , keeps ...
... stands on firm and elevated ground ; his heart is fixed , trusting in the Lord ; and he feels within him the workings of a principle , which , like the hand of God , will not let him go ; but amidst all the assaults of the world , keeps ...
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... stands clear of ev- ery objection of this kind , and is level to the comprehen- sion of every man of common sense . - Either the earth moves round its axis once in twenty - four hours - or , the sun , moon , planets , comets , stars ...
... stands clear of ev- ery objection of this kind , and is level to the comprehen- sion of every man of common sense . - Either the earth moves round its axis once in twenty - four hours - or , the sun , moon , planets , comets , stars ...
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... stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? For- bid it , Heaven ! -I know not what course others may take ...
... stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? For- bid it , Heaven ! -I know not what course others may take ...
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... stand , that our share in the infamous traffick , cost from three to four thousand lives annually , in the middle passage , and from eight to ten thousand more , in the two first years of servitude . This indeed must have been ...
... stand , that our share in the infamous traffick , cost from three to four thousand lives annually , in the middle passage , and from eight to ten thousand more , in the two first years of servitude . This indeed must have been ...
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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.