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 páginas |
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... animal world ; all of which express their various feelings , by various tones . Ours , indeed from the superiour rank that we held , are in a high degree more comprehensive ; as there is not an act of the mind , an ex- ertion of the ...
... animal world ; all of which express their various feelings , by various tones . Ours , indeed from the superiour rank that we held , are in a high degree more comprehensive ; as there is not an act of the mind , an ex- ertion of the ...
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... animals , either of my own , or a different kind ? Is every thing subservient to me , as though I had ordered all myself ? -No - nothing like it — the far- thest from it possible . 2. The world appears not , then , originally made for ...
... animals , either of my own , or a different kind ? Is every thing subservient to me , as though I had ordered all myself ? -No - nothing like it — the far- thest from it possible . 2. The world appears not , then , originally made for ...
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... animals , which are formed for our use , and which can finish their business in a short life . 8. The silk - worm , after having spun her task , lays her eggs and dies . But a man cannot take in his full measure of knowl- edge , has not ...
... animals , which are formed for our use , and which can finish their business in a short life . 8. The silk - worm , after having spun her task , lays her eggs and dies . But a man cannot take in his full measure of knowl- edge , has not ...
Página 119
... shine only by reflection ; have fields , and seas , and skies , of their own ; are furnished with all accommodations for animal Chap . 9 . 119 PROMISCUOUS PIECES . The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered.
... shine only by reflection ; have fields , and seas , and skies , of their own ; are furnished with all accommodations for animal Chap . 9 . 119 PROMISCUOUS PIECES . The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered.
Página 120
... animal sub- sistence , and are supposed to be the abodes of intellectual life ; all which , together with our earthly habitation , are dependent on that grand dispenser of Divine munificence , the sun ; receive their light from the ...
... animal sub- sistence , and are supposed to be the abodes of intellectual life ; all which , together with our earthly habitation , are dependent on that grand dispenser of Divine munificence , the sun ; receive their light from the ...
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Página 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...
Página 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,
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 157 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Página 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.