Sequel to the English Reader, Or Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...Lincoln & Edmands. Sold at their Bible warehouse, and theological and miscellaneous bookstore, no. 53 Cornhill, 1816 - 286 páginas |
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... duty of all fublunary beings ; and every enjoyment is an offence to the Deity , who is to be worshipped only by the mortification of every sense of pleasure , and the everlafting exercife of fighs and tears . " This melancholy picture ...
... duty of all fublunary beings ; and every enjoyment is an offence to the Deity , who is to be worshipped only by the mortification of every sense of pleasure , and the everlafting exercife of fighs and tears . " This melancholy picture ...
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... duty , but where it is neceffary to avoid guilt , or to do good ; nor pleasure a crime , but where it ftrengthens the influence of bad inclinations , or leffens the generous activity of virtue . The happiness allot- ted to man in his ...
... duty , but where it is neceffary to avoid guilt , or to do good ; nor pleasure a crime , but where it ftrengthens the influence of bad inclinations , or leffens the generous activity of virtue . The happiness allot- ted to man in his ...
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... duty engaged a good man to take fome part in the business of the world , the task , when fubmitted to , would prove distasteful Even the prefervation of life would be flighted , if he were not bound to it by the authority of God ...
... duty engaged a good man to take fome part in the business of the world , the task , when fubmitted to , would prove distasteful Even the prefervation of life would be flighted , if he were not bound to it by the authority of God ...
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... duty . Ample rewards were promised to virtue ; but these rewards were left , as yet , in obfcurity and diftant profpect . The impreffions of sense were so balanced against the discoveries of immor- tality , as to allow a conflict ...
... duty . Ample rewards were promised to virtue ; but these rewards were left , as yet , in obfcurity and diftant profpect . The impreffions of sense were so balanced against the discoveries of immor- tality , as to allow a conflict ...
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... duty which young people owe to their inftructers cannot be better fhown , than in the effect which the in- ftructions they receive have upon them . They would do well , therefore , to confider the advantages of an early at tention to ...
... duty which young people owe to their inftructers cannot be better fhown , than in the effect which the in- ftructions they receive have upon them . They would do well , therefore , to confider the advantages of an early at tention to ...
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Página 207 - Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain. These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Página 205 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all...
Página 201 - 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 church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 205 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 226 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
Página 204 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work...
Página 206 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 199 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 208 - Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same.
Página 199 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.