Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers. Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary : the Words are ... Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles of John Walker

S. Newton, 1824 - 287 pagini

PIECES IN PROSE	i

A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor	63

Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty	76

Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford	113

Democritus and Heraclitus	125

Cicero against Verres	136

Earthquake at Calabria in the year 1638	153

The influence of devotion on the happiness of life	175

Charity A paraphrase on the 13th chap of the first Epistle to the Corinthians	238

Picture of a good man	239

The pleasures of retirement	241

The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well	242

The hermit	243

The beggars petition	244

Unhappy close of life	245

Elegy to pity	246

The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our fac	181

What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life	187

Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity	194

The same subject continued	202

Verses in which the lines are of different length	208

Paragraphs of greater length	214

The vanity of wealth	225

Matthew	228

The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue ib 7 Reflections on a future state from review of winter	229

Adams advice to Eve to avoid temptation	230

On procrastination	231

and on slavery CHAPTER IV	233

The morning in summer +	234

Rural sounds as well as rural sights delightful	235

The rose	236

Care of birds for their young ib 5 Liberty and slavery contrasted	237

Gratitude 7 A man perishing in the snow from whence reflections	248

are raised on the miseries of life	249

A morning hymu	251

Ode to content	252

The Shepherd and the Philosopher	254

The road to happiness open to all men	255

The goodness of Providence	256

The Creators works attest his greatness	257

Address to the Deity ib 7 The pursuit of happiness often ill directed	259

The fireside	260

Providence vindicated in the present state of man	262

Selfishness reproved	263

Human frailty	264

Conscience	269

Confidence in Divine protection	275

The seasons	284

Titlu	Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers. Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary : the Words are ... Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles of John Walker
Autori	Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich
Editor	S. Newton, 1824
Exemplar original de la	Universitatea de Stat din Ohio
Scanată la	4 aug. 2014
Lungime	287 pagini

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