The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingJames I. Cutler & Company, 1827 - 252 pages |
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... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a pecal- lar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a pecal- lar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
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... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress , are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration , form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature ; an enemy to pomp and noise ...
... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress , are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration , form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature ; an enemy to pomp and noise ...
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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have estab- Lished our principles , let us not suffer thein to be shaken by ne scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have estab- Lished our principles , let us not suffer thein to be shaken by ne scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we ...
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... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice and a waker . with- in the heart those latent suggestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice and a waker . with- in the heart those latent suggestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
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... truth . " L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that , as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
... truth . " L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that , as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
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Page 218 - Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven; On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 78 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Page 200 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 224 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 242 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 178 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 193 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Page 230 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Page 217 - 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.
Page 244 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.