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 ; 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 ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 strán (strany) |
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Strana 19
... has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal Chap . 1 . 19 Select Sentences , & e .
... has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal Chap . 1 . 19 Select Sentences , & e .
Strana 28
... 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 dwel gether in unity ! It is ...
... 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 dwel gether in unity ! It is ...
Strana 36
... wisdom and virtue rendered hor example to her sex . But it was her lot to conue short period on this stage of being ; for in early life a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the duke o land , who promoted a marriage between her aux ...
... wisdom and virtue rendered hor example to her sex . But it was her lot to conue short period on this stage of being ; for in early life a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the duke o land , who promoted a marriage between her aux ...
Strana 40
... wisdom avail with poverty ? Noue will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretch- eduess , who lives with his own faults and follies ...
... wisdom avail with poverty ? Noue will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretch- eduess , who lives with his own faults and follies ...
Strana 48
... wisdom in cunning , patience in sullenuess and despair . 4. Men's passions operate variously , and appear in differ ent kinds of actions , according as they are more or less rec- tified and swayed by reason . When one hears of negroes ...
... wisdom in cunning , patience in sullenuess and despair . 4. Men's passions operate variously , and appear in differ ent kinds of actions , according as they are more or less rec- tified and swayed by reason . When one hears of negroes ...
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Strana 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Strana 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Strana 231 - 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.
Strana 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Strana 226 - 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.
Strana 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Strana 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Strana 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Strana 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Strana 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.