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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... Thoughts , The Stranger and his Friend , Page 9 Seed 11 HUMPHREY HAWES 13 Dick 18 WILCOX 22 WAYLAND 24 DENNIE 25 Pollok 27 Mrs. Hemans 28 Mode of acquiring the most comprehensive conception of the Bulk of the Earth , Pollok 30 HAWES 32 ...
... Thoughts , The Stranger and his Friend , Page 9 Seed 11 HUMPHREY HAWES 13 Dick 18 WILCOX 22 WAYLAND 24 DENNIE 25 Pollok 27 Mrs. Hemans 28 Mode of acquiring the most comprehensive conception of the Bulk of the Earth , Pollok 30 HAWES 32 ...
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... Thoughts on Thinking , Eloquence of John Adams , LINDLEY MURRAY 191 CONNECTICUT MIRROR 193 Effects of the modern Diffusion of Knowledge , Right Use of the Scriptures , The ways of God are equal , Of bridling the Tongue , Indolence ...
... Thoughts on Thinking , Eloquence of John Adams , LINDLEY MURRAY 191 CONNECTICUT MIRROR 193 Effects of the modern Diffusion of Knowledge , Right Use of the Scriptures , The ways of God are equal , Of bridling the Tongue , Indolence ...
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... thoughts : the latter we cannot command in all places , nor relish at all times ; and therefore there is an absolute necessity for the former . We may pursue this or that new pleasure ; we may be fond for a while of a new acquisition ...
... thoughts : the latter we cannot command in all places , nor relish at all times ; and therefore there is an absolute necessity for the former . We may pursue this or that new pleasure ; we may be fond for a while of a new acquisition ...
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... thought to their coming days , nor in- quire how they are to fulfil the great end of their being . Of these gay and thoughtless triflers , society has no- thing to expect . They may have their little day of sun- shine and pleasure ...
... thought to their coming days , nor in- quire how they are to fulfil the great end of their being . Of these gay and thoughtless triflers , society has no- thing to expect . They may have their little day of sun- shine and pleasure ...
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... thought and affection - all proclaim the Benevolence of our Almighty Maker , and show , that the communication of ... thoughts , tram- pled upon his laws , neglected to contemplate his works , refused to pay him that tribute of reverence ...
... thought and affection - all proclaim the Benevolence of our Almighty Maker , and show , that the communication of ... thoughts , tram- pled upon his laws , neglected to contemplate his works , refused to pay him that tribute of reverence ...
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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.