Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading; Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary ... Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles of John Walker ... Walker's Pronouncing Key, which Governs the Vocabulary, is Prefixed to this WorkSamuel Newton, 1825 - 302 páginas |
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... peace and safety ; without any particular or uncommon evils to afflict our condi- tion ; what more can we reasonably look for in this vain and uncertain world ? How little can the greatest pros- perity add to such a state ? Will any ...
... peace and safety ; without any particular or uncommon evils to afflict our condi- tion ; what more can we reasonably look for in this vain and uncertain world ? How little can the greatest pros- perity add to such a state ? Will any ...
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... peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell tegether in unity ! It is like precious ointment ; like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion . The sluggard will not plough by reason of ...
... peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell tegether in unity ! It is like precious ointment ; like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion . The sluggard will not plough by reason of ...
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... peace will be impaired . But if any , which has the taint of guilt , take early possession of our mind , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion , which generally affords the ...
... peace will be impaired . But if any , which has the taint of guilt , take early possession of our mind , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion , which generally affords the ...
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... peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our dis- ordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the ...
... peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our dis- ordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the ...
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... peace and repose , would be strangers to human life . 2. Injuries retaliated according to the exorbitant measure which passion prescribes , would excite resent ment in return . The injured person would become the injurer ; and thus ...
... peace and repose , would be strangers to human life . 2. Injuries retaliated according to the exorbitant measure which passion prescribes , would excite resent ment in return . The injured person would become the injurer ; and thus ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abdalonymus Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoyment ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection Jugurtha kind king labour live look Lord mankind manner Masinissa means ment mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature ness never niscience Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace person philosopher pleasure possession pow'r praise pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rising Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily Sidon smile sorrow soul sound spect spirit temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion tones truth vanity vice virtue voice wisdom wise words young youth
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Página 293 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 281 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 266 - Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, it gently clear'd my way, And through the pleasing snares of vice, more to be fear'd than they.
Página 112 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 'Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 'The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 102 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 266 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Página 244 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 132 - 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 293 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Página 281 - 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