The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingH. Hill, 1828 - 252 páginas |
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... to the subject ; and establish a nabit of readily discovering the mean- ing , force , and beauty of what they peruse . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE . CHAPTER I. SELECT SENTENCES 12 INTRODUCTION . On the true honour of man,
... to the subject ; and establish a nabit of readily discovering the mean- ing , force , and beauty of what they peruse . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE . CHAPTER I. SELECT SENTENCES 12 INTRODUCTION . On the true honour of man,
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... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO . Change of external condition is often adverse to virtue . IN the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent ...
... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO . Change of external condition is often adverse to virtue . IN the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent ...
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... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this gene ...
... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this gene ...
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... honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
... honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
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... honour , than where religion and morality are concerned . In times of prevailing licentiousness , to maintain unblemished virtue , and uncorrupted integrity in a public or a private cause ; to stand firm by what is fair and just ...
... honour , than where religion and morality are concerned . In times of prevailing licentiousness , to maintain unblemished virtue , and uncorrupted integrity in a public or a private cause ; to stand firm by what is fair and just ...
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Página 200 - 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 223 - 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 23 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Página 230 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 224 - 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.
Página 200 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 242 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit. In this or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
Página 229 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar: Wait the great teacher, death, and God adore! What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Página 245 - 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 198 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.