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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... wise man is happy , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superiour emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determined en- tirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ...
... wise man is happy , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superiour emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determined en- tirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ...
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... wise man , and build his house on the rock , and not on the sand , should contemplate human life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . NOTE . In the first chapter , the compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of ...
... wise man , and build his house on the rock , and not on the sand , should contemplate human life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . NOTE . In the first chapter , the compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of ...
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... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . 4. Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed floating on ...
... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . 4. Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed floating on ...
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... wise . 6. Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebuke is better than secret love . 7. Šeest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him . 8. He that is ...
... wise . 6. Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebuke is better than secret love . 7. Šeest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him . 8. He that is ...
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... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give ...
... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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.