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 Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 pagini |
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Pagina 25
... suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe any tendency to treat religion or mo rals with disrespect and levity , let us hold it to be a sure in- dication of a perverted ...
... suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe any tendency to treat religion or mo rals with disrespect and levity , let us hold it to be a sure in- dication of a perverted ...
Pagina 32
... suffered to lie waste by negligence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out for show , rather than use . When Aristotle was asked , " What a man could gain by telling a falsehood , " he replied , " Not to be credited when he ...
... suffered to lie waste by negligence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out for show , rather than use . When Aristotle was asked , " What a man could gain by telling a falsehood , " he replied , " Not to be credited when he ...
Pagina 36
... suffered from the power of headstrong desire . If we allow any passion , even though it be esteemed innocent , to acquire an abso- lute ascendant , our inward peace will be impaired . But it any , which has the taint of guilt , take ...
... suffered from the power of headstrong desire . If we allow any passion , even though it be esteemed innocent , to acquire an abso- lute ascendant , our inward peace will be impaired . But it any , which has the taint of guilt , take ...
Pagina 37
... , occasioned by the vi- cissitudes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both How much soever of the active and the suffering virtues . D Part 1 we complain of the vanity of the world Chap . 1 . 31 Select Sentences , & e .
... , occasioned by the vi- cissitudes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both How much soever of the active and the suffering virtues . D Part 1 we complain of the vanity of the world Chap . 1 . 31 Select Sentences , & e .
Pagina 42
... suffered no man to come in with the king , to the banquet that she had prepared , but myself ; and to - morrow also am I invited to her with the king . " After all this preamble , what is the conclusion ? " Yet all this availeth me ...
... suffered no man to come in with the king , to the banquet that she had prepared , but myself ; and to - morrow also am I invited to her with the king . " After all this preamble , what is the conclusion ? " Yet all this availeth me ...
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Pagina 126 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Pagina 207 - 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.
Pagina 255 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Pagina 204 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Pagina 255 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
Pagina 232 - 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
Pagina 254 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Pagina 195 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Pagina 196 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
Pagina 217 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.