The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers, Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read ...Bennett and Walton, 1812 - 392 pages |
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... Heaven . Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends generally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious ; but an ill one , more contemptible ...
... Heaven . Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends generally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious ; but an ill one , more contemptible ...
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... Heaven ? Can we look for clemency or gentleness from our Judge , when we are so backward to show it to our own brother ? Let us also accustom ourselves , to reflect on the small moment of those things , which are the usual in- centives ...
... Heaven ? Can we look for clemency or gentleness from our Judge , when we are so backward to show it to our own brother ? Let us also accustom ourselves , to reflect on the small moment of those things , which are the usual in- centives ...
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... heaven . If we delay till to - morrow what ought to be done to - day , we overcharge the morrow with a bur- den which belongs not to it . We load the wheels of time , and prevent them from carrying us along smooth- ly . He who every ...
... heaven . If we delay till to - morrow what ought to be done to - day , we overcharge the morrow with a bur- den which belongs not to it . We load the wheels of time , and prevent them from carrying us along smooth- ly . He who every ...
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... heaven . He continued to " walk with God , " when the world apostatized from him . He pleased God and was beloved of him ; so that living among sinners , he was translated to heaven without seeing death ; " Yea , speedily was he taken ...
... heaven . He continued to " walk with God , " when the world apostatized from him . He pleased God and was beloved of him ; so that living among sinners , he was translated to heaven without seeing death ; " Yea , speedily was he taken ...
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... heaven , as the bright- ness of the firmament , for ever and ever . BLAIR . SECTION X. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue . THOUGH NO Condition of human life is free from uneasiness , yet it must be allowed , that ...
... heaven , as the bright- ness of the firmament , for ever and ever . BLAIR . SECTION X. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue . THOUGH NO Condition of human life is free from uneasiness , yet it must be allowed , that ...
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Page 277 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : 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 263 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 195 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 228 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 294 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Page 228 - Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines Our eyelids...
Page 284 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page xvii - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 240 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more : The storms of wint'ry time will quickly pass, And one unbounded spring encircle all — THOMSON, SECTION VIII.
Page 223 - Had cheered the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...