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; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Improtant Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingJ. Griffin, 1823 - 252 pagini |
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Pagina xix
... Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings , pronounced by Christ on his disciples , in his sermon on the mount , 10. Schemes of life often illusory , · 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 13. The influence of devotion ...
... Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings , pronounced by Christ on his disciples , in his sermon on the mount , 10. Schemes of life often illusory , · 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 13. The influence of devotion ...
Pagina xx
... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter , 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation , 9. On procrastination , 206 207 208 209 10. That philosophy , which stops at secondary causes , reproved , 11. Indignant ...
... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter , 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation , 9. On procrastination , 206 207 208 209 10. That philosophy , which stops at secondary causes , reproved , 11. Indignant ...
Pagina xxi
... reflections are raised on the miseries of life , 8. A morning hymn , 228 230 • CHAPTER VI . Promiscuous Pieces . Sect . 1. Ode to Content , 2. The shepherd and the philosopher , 3. The road to happiness open to all men , 4. The goodness ...
... reflections are raised on the miseries of life , 8. A morning hymn , 228 230 • CHAPTER VI . Promiscuous Pieces . Sect . 1. Ode to Content , 2. The shepherd and the philosopher , 3. The road to happiness open to all men , 4. The goodness ...
Pagina xx
... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter , 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation , • • CHAPTER IV .. Descriptive Pieces . Sect . 1. The morning in summer , • 2. Rural sounds , as well as rural sights , delightful ...
... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter , 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation , • • CHAPTER IV .. Descriptive Pieces . Sect . 1. The morning in summer , • 2. Rural sounds , as well as rural sights , delightful ...
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... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . The desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many ...
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . The desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many ...
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father fear feel folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery mountain nature nature's never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect persons phasis pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate rowding scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring sweet temper tempest thee things thou thought tion tones truth vanity vice virtue voice wisdom wise words youth
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Pagina 246 - The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the ev'ning shades prevail, The moon takes up the wond'rous tale, 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, •And spread the truth from pole to pole. Confirm the
Pagina 201 - Horrible discord; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Battle. -Arms on armour clashing bray'd Sound imitating reluctance. for who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS
Pagina 37 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Open rebuke is better than secret love. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him. He that is slow to anger, is
Pagina 145 - Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Pagina 139 - that God should raise the dead? 1 verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth : and this I did in Jerusalem. Many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests: and when they were put to death,
Pagina 209 - men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise ; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleeps .All these with ceaseless praise his works behold,! Both day and night. How often, from the steep - Of echoing
Pagina 252 - Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy, and
Pagina 140 - I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds."* acts xxvi. SECTION IV. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Peers, 1770, on the bill for preventing the delays of justice, by claiming the Privilege of Parliament.
Pagina xx - Glows' in the stars", and blossoms in the trees ; "Lives', through all life"; extends'through all extent, " Spreads' undivided ', operates' unspent.' Before the conclusion of this introduction, the Compiler takes the liberty to, recommend to teachers, to exercise their pupils in discovering and explaining the emphatic
Pagina 198 - not on his humble birtb, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to mis'ry all he had—a tear; He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a