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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... distress are often blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . 8. True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . 9. In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must ...
... distress are often blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . 8. True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . 9. In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must ...
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... distress , we should often find them peopled with the victims of intemperance and sensuality , and with the children of vicious indolence and sloth . 3. To be wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be ...
... distress , we should often find them peopled with the victims of intemperance and sensuality , and with the children of vicious indolence and sloth . 3. To be wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be ...
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... distressed for thee , my bro- ther Jonathan , " said the plaintive and surviving David ; very pleasant hast thou been to me : thy love for me was wonderful ; passing the love of women . ' " " 8. Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near ...
... distressed for thee , my bro- ther Jonathan , " said the plaintive and surviving David ; very pleasant hast thou been to me : thy love for me was wonderful ; passing the love of women . ' " " 8. Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near ...
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... distress which are passing at that moment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can ...
... distress which are passing at that moment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can ...
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... distress or difficulty , to abandon ourselves to dejection , carries no mark of a great or a worthy mind . Instead of sinking under trouble , and declaring " that his soul is weary of life , it becomes a wise and a good man , in the ...
... distress or difficulty , to abandon ourselves to dejection , carries no mark of a great or a worthy mind . Instead of sinking under trouble , and declaring " that his soul is weary of life , it becomes a wise and a good man , in the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affection Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray åte attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cern character comfort Côn dark death Democritus distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyments errours eternity ev'ry evil father favour folly fortune Fundanus gåte gentle give ground happiness Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human innocence Jugurtha kind king labour live look Lord mankind ment Micipsa midst mind misery mount Etna nature ness never noble Numidia o'er oùs pain pass passions pause peace perfection person pleasures possession pow'r praise present prince Prò proper publick Pythias reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense shining Sicily sorrow soul sound spirit suffer superiour temper thee thing thou thought tion tỷ vanity violence virtue voice wisdom wise words youth
Passagens conhecidas
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.