The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect ; Improve Their Language and Sentiments ; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 páginas |
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... fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . TIME once past never returns : the moment ...
... fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . TIME once past never returns : the moment ...
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... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience ; and preserve the most quick and accurate sensibility to right and wrong , If ever your moral impres- sions begin to decay , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to ...
... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience ; and preserve the most quick and accurate sensibility to right and wrong , If ever your moral impres- sions begin to decay , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to ...
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... fear , and ravage and expira tion . All the horrors of darkness and solitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tum bled from the hills . 11. Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through th wild ...
... fear , and ravage and expira tion . All the horrors of darkness and solitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tum bled from the hills . 11. Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through th wild ...
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... fear there is torment . " how miserable must be his state who , by living in perpetual jealousy , lives in perpetual dread ? 3. Looking upon himself to be surrounded with spies , enemies , and designing men , he is a stranger to ...
... fear there is torment . " how miserable must be his state who , by living in perpetual jealousy , lives in perpetual dread ? 3. Looking upon himself to be surrounded with spies , enemies , and designing men , he is a stranger to ...
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... that has being , especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him . He is privy to all their thoughts , and to that anxiety of heart in particular , which is apt to trouble them on Chap . 3 . 69 Didactic Pieces .
... that has being , especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him . He is privy to all their thoughts , and to that anxiety of heart in particular , which is apt to trouble them on Chap . 3 . 69 Didactic Pieces .
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er oper countenance ourselves pain passions pause peace persons pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Página 225 - 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.
Página 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening 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.
Página 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 184 - 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 canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Página 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Página 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Página 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.