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 ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 páginas |
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... rich , study not to increase his stores , but to diminish his desires . " " The Mexican figures , or picture writing , represent things not words : they exhibit images to the eye not ideas to the understanding . " Some sentences are so ...
... rich , study not to increase his stores , but to diminish his desires . " " The Mexican figures , or picture writing , represent things not words : they exhibit images to the eye not ideas to the understanding . " Some sentences are so ...
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... rich embroidery , placed for his favourite . Side - boards , loaded with gold and silver plate of immense value , were arranged in the apartment . Pages of extraordinary beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his commands ...
... rich embroidery , placed for his favourite . Side - boards , loaded with gold and silver plate of immense value , were arranged in the apartment . Pages of extraordinary beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his commands ...
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... rich gifts from the king , he presents himself before the prophet ; and accosts him in terms of the highest respect . During the conference which they held together , Elisha fixed his eyes stedfastly on the countenance of Hazael ; and ...
... rich gifts from the king , he presents himself before the prophet ; and accosts him in terms of the highest respect . During the conference which they held together , Elisha fixed his eyes stedfastly on the countenance of Hazael ; and ...
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... rich . " Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his cham- ber for six months , to deliberate how he should grow rich . He sometimes purposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings in India ; and sometimes resolved ...
... rich . " Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his cham- ber for six months , to deliberate how he should grow rich . He sometimes purposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings in India ; and sometimes resolved ...
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... rich , " said Ortogrul ; " let the golden stream be quick and violent . " " Look round thee , " said his father , 66 once again . " Ortogrul looked , and perceived the channel of the torrent dry and dusty ; but fol- lowing the rivulet ...
... rich , " said Ortogrul ; " let the golden stream be quick and violent . " " Look round thee , " said his father , 66 once again . " Ortogrul looked , and perceived the channel of the torrent dry and dusty ; but fol- lowing the rivulet ...
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ages offended Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort consider death desire distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy ev'ry evil father feel folly fortune gentle give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven honour hope human indulge Jugurtha king labours live look Lord lord Guilford Dudley mankind Micipsa midst mind misery mountain multitude nature never Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain passions pause peace persons philosopher pleasing pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roger Ascham scene SECTION sense sentiments shade shine Sicily smiling sorrow soul sound spirit storm of passion suffer temper tempest thee things thought tion truth vanity vice violent virtue voice wisdom wise wish youth
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Página 126 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Página 207 - 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 255 - 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.
Página 204 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Página 255 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 232 - 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
Página 254 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Página 195 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Página 196 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
Página 217 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.