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 ReadingJohn Montgomery, 1827 - 264 sider |
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... once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been an unheard of and dreadful punishment , brought upon man in ...
... once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been an unheard of and dreadful punishment , brought upon man in ...
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... once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell how far they may carry him . 16. Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be attained , when the business of the world is ...
... once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell how far they may carry him . 16. Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be attained , when the business of the world is ...
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... once , may breathe out his life in idle wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . 13. The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the ...
... once , may breathe out his life in idle wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . 13. The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the ...
Side 26
... once ob- tained an unlimited sway , trample him under their feet . They make him feel that he is subject to various , contradictory , and imperious masters , who often pull him different ways . His soul is rendered the receptacle of ...
... once ob- tained an unlimited sway , trample him under their feet . They make him feel that he is subject to various , contradictory , and imperious masters , who often pull him different ways . His soul is rendered the receptacle of ...
Side 28
... once to be blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the burden and nuisance of society 7. The most common propensity of mankind , is , to store futurity with whatever is agreeable to them ; especially in those periods of ...
... once to be blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the burden and nuisance of society 7. The most common propensity of mankind , is , to store futurity with whatever is agreeable to them ; especially in those periods of ...
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Side 163 - 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...
Side 189 - Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Side 82 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Side 183 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Side 183 - 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.
Side 179 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's Great Author rise...
Side 179 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. 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.
Side 179 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Side 157 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Side 175 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.