The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingBenjamin Olds, 1830 - 249 páginas |
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... youth in the art of reading ; to meliorate their language eal sentiments ; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of prety and virtue . The pieces selected , not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions , and ...
... youth in the art of reading ; to meliorate their language eal sentiments ; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of prety and virtue . The pieces selected , not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions , and ...
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... youth . It would indeed be a great and happy improvement in education , if no writings were allowed to come under their notice , but such as are perfectly innocent ; and if on all proper occa- sions , they were encouraged to peruse ...
... youth . It would indeed be a great and happy improvement in education , if no writings were allowed to come under their notice , but such as are perfectly innocent ; and if on all proper occa- sions , they were encouraged to peruse ...
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... youth is committed . SECTION 11 . Distinctness . IN the next place to being well heard and clearly understood , distinctness of articulation contributes more than mere loudness of sound . " The quantity of sound necessary to fill even a ...
... youth is committed . SECTION 11 . Distinctness . IN the next place to being well heard and clearly understood , distinctness of articulation contributes more than mere loudness of sound . " The quantity of sound necessary to fill even a ...
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... youth . Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess , vir- tue is requisite , in order to their shining with proper lustre , Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood . Sincerity and truth form ...
... youth . Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess , vir- tue is requisite , in order to their shining with proper lustre , Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood . Sincerity and truth form ...
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... youth to gray hairs , and from the peasant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to criminal deeds . Yet those riches , when obtained , may very possibly overwhelm us with unforeseen miseries . Those pleasures ...
... youth to gray hairs , and from the peasant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to criminal deeds . Yet those riches , when obtained , may very possibly overwhelm us with unforeseen miseries . Those pleasures ...
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Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father fear feel folly fortune friendship give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace perfect person pleasing pleasure possession pow'r praise pride prince proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rising Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit sweet temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words ye tings youth
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Página 115 - to kick against the pricks. And I said, who art thou Lord ? And he replied, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. 3 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead ? I verily thought with my self, that I ought to do many things contrary to
Página 166 - in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Epitaph. How lov'd, how valu'd once, avails thee not: To whom related, or by whom begot: A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. And
Página 211 - Morning Hymn. THESE are thy glorious works, parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wond'rous fair; thyself how wond'rous then t Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens. To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lower works ; yet these declare . Thy goodness beyond thought, and pow'r divine,
Página 217 - nightly, to thelist'ning 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, 3 What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball! What tho' no real voice nor sound, Amid their radiant orbs be found!
Página 223 - 4 Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the Solar Walk or Milky Way, Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, bat always to be
Página 211 - morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun, of this great world, both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall's!
Página 116 - 1 would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether, such as I am, except these bonds."* acts xxvi. SECTION IV. Lord Mansfield's Speech in the House of Peers, 1770, on the Bill for preventing the delays of Justice, by claiming the Privilege of Parliament. MY LORDS, WHEN
Página 216 - makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all.—pope. SECTION. IV. The Goodness of Providence. 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 noon-day walks he shall attend, \ And all my midnight hours defend. t
Página 208 - 0 how shall words with equal warmth, The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart But thou canst read it there. 3 Thy providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redrest, When in the silent womb I lay, And huug upon the breast. 4 To all my weak complaints and cries, , Thy mercy
Página 217 - O Lord, art with me still; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade. . 4 Tho' in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray, The barren wilderness shall smile, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile;