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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 páginas |
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Página 45
... darkness ; and the destroying flame was not permitted to go forth , till the good man was called away by a heavenly ... dark- ness , and are now shining in the kingdom of heayen , the brightness of the firmament , forever and ever ...
... darkness ; and the destroying flame was not permitted to go forth , till the good man was called away by a heavenly ... dark- ness , and are now shining in the kingdom of heayen , the brightness of the firmament , forever and ever ...
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... dark and bewildered state , the aspiring tendency of our nature unfortunately takes an opposite direction , and feeds a very misplaced ambition . The flattering appearances which here present themselves to sense ; the distinction which ...
... dark and bewildered state , the aspiring tendency of our nature unfortunately takes an opposite direction , and feeds a very misplaced ambition . The flattering appearances which here present themselves to sense ; the distinction which ...
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... darkness closes the scene upon his eye . Then cometh the harvest , when the large wish is satisfied , and the granaries of nature are loaded with the means of life , eve to a luxury of abundance . The powers of language are unequal to ...
... darkness closes the scene upon his eye . Then cometh the harvest , when the large wish is satisfied , and the granaries of nature are loaded with the means of life , eve to a luxury of abundance . The powers of language are unequal to ...
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... darkness , how could we labour ? How wise , how benignant . then , is the proper division ! The hours of light are adapted to activity ; and those of dark- ness , to rest . Ere the day is passed , exercise and nature pre- pare us for ...
... darkness , how could we labour ? How wise , how benignant . then , is the proper division ! The hours of light are adapted to activity ; and those of dark- ness , to rest . Ere the day is passed , exercise and nature pre- pare us for ...
Página 72
... dark , and which one of the natives assured us contained nothing more than a reservoir of water . Upon this information , we made an experiment , by throwing down some stones , which rumbling along the sides of the de- cent for some ...
... dark , and which one of the natives assured us contained nothing more than a reservoir of water . Upon this information , we made an experiment , by throwing down some stones , which rumbling along the sides of the de- cent for some ...
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amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessings Caius Verres character cheerful comforts dark death Democritus Descartes Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION SECTION VI sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Página 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.