Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Modern. To which are Added, Some Biographical Sketches from the Earliest Ages of the World to Nearly the Present Time. Also, Extensive Scripture Lessons. ...Mahlon Day, 1827 |
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Página 104
... Socrates ; that man is great indeed . A wit's a feather , and a chief a rod , An honest man's the noblest work of God . All fame is foreign , but of true desert , Plays round the head , but comes not to the heart : -One self - approving ...
... Socrates ; that man is great indeed . A wit's a feather , and a chief a rod , An honest man's the noblest work of God . All fame is foreign , but of true desert , Plays round the head , but comes not to the heart : -One self - approving ...
Página 130
... Socrates , an Epic- tetus , a Fenelon ; that rendered them , at once , the happiest , and the most respecta- ble of mankind . p . 50 . Our illumination , like our virtue , consists in descending and our force in becoming sensible of our ...
... Socrates , an Epic- tetus , a Fenelon ; that rendered them , at once , the happiest , and the most respecta- ble of mankind . p . 50 . Our illumination , like our virtue , consists in descending and our force in becoming sensible of our ...
Página 174
... Socrates , who with the features of a pro- fligate , delighted every eye while he dis- coursed of virtue . I have no doubt , that the repelling outside of these two great men , may have largely contributed to give a pe- culiar ...
... Socrates , who with the features of a pro- fligate , delighted every eye while he dis- coursed of virtue . I have no doubt , that the repelling outside of these two great men , may have largely contributed to give a pe- culiar ...
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... at rest . p . 394 . Though there be no difference between the dust of Nero and that of Socrates , no one would grant a place in his grove to the re- mains of the Roman emperor , were they deposited even THE STUDIES OF NATURE . 187.
... at rest . p . 394 . Though there be no difference between the dust of Nero and that of Socrates , no one would grant a place in his grove to the re- mains of the Roman emperor , were they deposited even THE STUDIES OF NATURE . 187.
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animals Art thou beauty Behold blessings blest bliss charming group charms cure death delight Descartes divine dreams earth employed eternal ev'ry fear feeble feel felicity Finland fool form'd frequently Gauls gives Greenland hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart heav'n honours hope hour human immortal labour land life's live Louis XIV man's mankind means mind miserable moral nature nature's Nero never o'er once ourselves pain passions peace plant pleasure plebian poor pow'r praise pride quadruped racter reason religion render replied repose rest rich Samaritan scene scorn sentiment shade shine sigh smiles Socrates soul spleen storm sublime sublunary taste teach tears tempest thee thine thing thou thought tion toil tree treme truth Turenne vice virtue virtuous wisdom wise wish worlds unknown wretched
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Página 67 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 108 - Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 102 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 9 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...
Página 118 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Página 172 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Página 58 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Página 54 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 99 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 57 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.