The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science and Literature, to Refine the Taste, and to Improve the Moral Character. Designed for the Use of SchoolsD.F. Robinson, 1828 - 276 páginas |
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... banished God from their thoughts , tram- pled upon his laws , neglected to contemplate his works , refused to pay him that tribute of reverence and adora- tion which his perfections demand , have been ungrateful for THE AMERICAN READER .
... banished God from their thoughts , tram- pled upon his laws , neglected to contemplate his works , refused to pay him that tribute of reverence and adora- tion which his perfections demand , have been ungrateful for THE AMERICAN READER .
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... contemplate patterns of human excellence tends to improve the heart and elevate the character , how much more certainly and constantly will a similar effect be pro- duced by an habitual contemplation of the adorable Jeho- vah , - ແ a ...
... contemplate patterns of human excellence tends to improve the heart and elevate the character , how much more certainly and constantly will a similar effect be pro- duced by an habitual contemplation of the adorable Jeho- vah , - ແ a ...
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... contemplation . That must be a low , frivo- lous mind , in which a glance at the starry heavens ex- cites no interest , no curiosity , no admiration , no rever- ence for the great Creator . Many of our employments , ( and this remark ...
... contemplation . That must be a low , frivo- lous mind , in which a glance at the starry heavens ex- cites no interest , no curiosity , no admiration , no rever- ence for the great Creator . Many of our employments , ( and this remark ...
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... contemplate ; especially when we consider , what perpet- ual , and incomprehensible , and powerful influence he ex- erts , what warmth , and beauty , and activity , he diffuses , not only on the globe we inhabit , but over the more ex ...
... contemplate ; especially when we consider , what perpet- ual , and incomprehensible , and powerful influence he ex- erts , what warmth , and beauty , and activity , he diffuses , not only on the globe we inhabit , but over the more ex ...
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... contemplate such motions , from a fixed point , at the distance of only a few hundreds of miles from the bodies thus impelled - it would raise our admiration to its highest pitch , it would overwhelm all our faculties , and , in our ...
... contemplate such motions , from a fixed point , at the distance of only a few hundreds of miles from the bodies thus impelled - it would raise our admiration to its highest pitch , it would overwhelm all our faculties , and , in our ...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ... George Merriam Visualização integral - 1828 |
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admiration appear ardent spirits beautiful become benevolence Bible blessing breath bright band called cataract character cheerful Columbus contemplate death decemvirs delight Divine duty earth eternal evil fear feel friends give globe glory Gymnosophists habits hand happiness hath heart heaven honour hope hour human hundred indulgence intemperance Jamestown Jemima knowledge labour Lady Delaval Lake Ontario land less LESSON liberty light ligion live look manner means ment middle passage midnight oil miles mind misery moral mortification nations nature Nearchus never night o'er object Patricians peace person pleasure Plebeian praise principle racter religion rence Sabbath scene shore slave smile Socrates solemn soon soul square miles sublime tears thee thing thou thought thousand tion tree truth turban turn virtue voice whole wind wish young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Página 89 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Página 169 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 89 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Página 89 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Página 90 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending...
Página 198 - Publish it from the pulpit: religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it or fall with it. Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Página 171 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 195 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 237 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.