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 ReadingEvert Duyckinck, 1810 - 231 sider |
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Side 28
... 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 is like precious ointment : Like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended ...
... 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 is like precious ointment : Like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended ...
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... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . CICERO , SECTION II . CHANGE OF EXTERNAL CONDITION OFTEN ADVERSE TO VIRTUE . In the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent , and ...
... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . CICERO , SECTION II . CHANGE OF EXTERNAL CONDITION OFTEN ADVERSE TO VIRTUE . In the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent , and ...
Side 34
... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this ...
... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this ...
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... honour , swells into a moment- ous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten imme- diate ruin . But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
... honour , swells into a moment- ous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten imme- diate ruin . But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
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... honour , than where religion and morality are concerned . In times of prevailing licentiousness , to maintain unblemished virtue , and uncor- rupted integrity ; in a public or a private cause , to stand firm by what is fair and just ...
... honour , than where religion and morality are concerned . In times of prevailing licentiousness , to maintain unblemished virtue , and uncor- rupted integrity ; in a public or a private cause , to stand firm by what is fair and just ...
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ADHERBAL ANTIPAROS appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cendant character cheer comforts dark death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha king labours LADY JANE GREY live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Side 225 - 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 202 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Side 178 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Side 238 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Side 219 - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
Side 189 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Side 118 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews. Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Side 185 - He spied far off upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent :
Side 238 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Side 248 - 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.