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 19
... wisdom , 8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time , · 9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples , 10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue , 11. On contentment , 12. Rank and riches afford ...
... wisdom , 8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time , · 9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples , 10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue , 11. On contentment , 12. Rank and riches afford ...
Pagina 26
... wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind . and is connected with many accomplishments , and many virtues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and ' éaves it open ...
... wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind . and is connected with many accomplishments , and many virtues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and ' éaves it open ...
Pagina 34
... Wisdom . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand , riches and honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her paths are peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to- gether in unity ! It ...
... Wisdom . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand , riches and honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her paths are peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to- gether in unity ! It ...
Pagina 35
... wisdom is the gray hair to man ; and an unspotted life is old age . Solomon , my son , know thou the God of thy fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart , and with a willing mind . If thou seek him , he will be found of thee ; but ...
... wisdom is the gray hair to man ; and an unspotted life is old age . Solomon , my son , know thou the God of thy fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart , and with a willing mind . If thou seek him , he will be found of thee ; but ...
Pagina 42
... wisdom and virtue rendered her a shin- ing example to her sex . But it was her lot to continue only a short period on this stage of being ; for , in early life , she fell a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the duke of Northumberland ...
... wisdom and virtue rendered her a shin- ing example to her sex . But it was her lot to continue only a short period on this stage of being ; for , in early life , she fell a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the duke of Northumberland ...
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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.