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 ReadingEdward Little & Company, 1811 - 254 páginas |
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... continued , with a little variation , on two , and fometimes more words together . The following fentences exemplify both the parts of this pofition : " If you feek to make one rich , study not to increase his flores , but to diminish ...
... continued , with a little variation , on two , and fometimes more words together . The following fentences exemplify both the parts of this pofition : " If you feek to make one rich , study not to increase his flores , but to diminish ...
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... continued action to the hearer , that the ear alfo may be relieved from the fatigue , which it would otherwife endure from a continui- ty of found ; and that the understanding may have fufficient time to mark the distinction of ...
... continued action to the hearer , that the ear alfo may be relieved from the fatigue , which it would otherwife endure from a continui- ty of found ; and that the understanding may have fufficient time to mark the distinction of ...
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... continued exulting in his profperity . Invited by Ahafuerus to a royal banquet , which Efther the queen had prepared , " he went forth that day joyful , and with a glad heart . " But behold how flight an incident was fufficient to ...
... continued exulting in his profperity . Invited by Ahafuerus to a royal banquet , which Efther the queen had prepared , " he went forth that day joyful , and with a glad heart . " But behold how flight an incident was fufficient to ...
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... continued to walk for a time , without the leaft remiffion of his ardour , except that he was fometimes tempted to stop by the music of the birds , which the heat had affembled in the fhade ; and fome- times amufed himself with plucking ...
... continued to walk for a time , without the leaft remiffion of his ardour , except that he was fometimes tempted to stop by the music of the birds , which the heat had affembled in the fhade ; and fome- times amufed himself with plucking ...
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... continued to " walk with God , " when the world aposta- tifed from him . He pleafed God , and was beloved of him ; fo that living among finners , he was tranflated to heaven without feeing death ; " Yea , fpeedily was he taken away ...
... continued to " walk with God , " when the world aposta- tifed from him . He pleafed God , and was beloved of him ; fo that living among finners , he was tranflated to heaven without feeing death ; " Yea , fpeedily was he taken away ...
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Página 179 - 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 203 - 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...
Página 204 - Know, nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch, warm'da bear. While man exclaims, " See all things for my use ! "
Página 176 - Strikes thro' their wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death.
Página 203 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn: Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Página 191 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 140 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
Página 210 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Página 22 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers, which appeared to have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.
Página 206 - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When...