The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse: From the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading

Benjamin Olds, 1841 - 252 sider

No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy 2 Change of external condition often adverse to virtue 3 Haman or the misery of pride 4 La...	1

The cataract of Niagara in Canada North America	2

Grotto of Antiparos	3

The grotto of Antiparos continued	4

Earthquake at Catanea	5

Creation	6

Charity	7

Prosperity is redoubled to a good man	8

The Rose ib 4 Care of birds for their young	203

Liberty and slavery contrasted ib 6 Charity A paraphrase on the 13th chap to the Corinthians	204

Picture of a good man	206

The pleasures of retirement	207

The pleasures and benefit of an improved imagination	208

The Hermit	210

The Beggars Petition	211

Unhappy close of life 212 3 Unhappy close of life 4 Elegy to Pity	213

On the beauties of the Psalms	9

Character of Alfred king of England	10

Character of Queen Elizabeth	11

On the slavery of vice	12

The man of integrity	13

Gentleness	14

What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life	19

Character of James I king of England	25

Verses containing exclamations interrogations parentheses c	174

The nightingale and the glowworm	182

The trials of virtue	183

The youth and the philosopher	185

Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest	186

Religion and death	189

The vanity of wealth	191

Nothing formed in vain	192

On pride ib 4 Cruelty to brutes censured	193

A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapter of Matthew	194

The death of a good man a strong incentive to vi tue	195

Reflections on the future state from a review of winter ib 8 Adams advice to Eve to avoid temptation	197

That philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved	199

Indignant sentiments on national prejudice slavery c	200

The morning in summer	201

Rural sounds as well as rural sights delightful	202

Tittel	The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse: From the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the ... Ontario textbook collection
Forfatter	Lindley Murray
Utgiver	Benjamin Olds, 1841
Original fra	Ohio State University
Digitalisert	12. jun 2014
Lengde	252 sider

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Verses by Alex Selkirk in the island of Juan Fernandez ib 6 Gratitude	215

A man perishing in the snow with reflections c c	216

A morning hymn	218

Ode to Content	219

The Shepherd and the Philosopher	221

The road to happiness open to all inen	222

The goodness of Providence	223

The Creators works attest his greatness	224

Address to the Deity	225

The pursuit of happiness often illdirected	226

The fireside	227

Providence vindicated in the present state of man	229

Selfishness reproved	230

Human frailty	231

Ode to peace	232

The universal prayer	235

Conscience	237

On an infant ib 18 The Cuckoo	238

Day A pastoral in three parts ib 20 The order of nature	241

Confidence in Divine protection	242

Hymn a review of the Seasons	243

On Solitude	245

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