The American Manual: Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry; Selected from the Best Writers. To which are Added, a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution; the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States. For the Use of Schools |
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第 17 頁
To endure present evils with patience , and wait for expected good with long
suffering , is equally the part of the christian and the hero . Adversitye overcome ,
is the highest glory ; and willingly undergone , the greatest virtuer sufferings are
but ...
To endure present evils with patience , and wait for expected good with long
suffering , is equally the part of the christian and the hero . Adversitye overcome ,
is the highest glory ; and willingly undergone , the greatest virtuer sufferings are
but ...
第 18 頁
Truth osten suffers more from the heat of its defenders , than from the argument of
its opposers . Nothing does reason more right , than the coolness of those who
offer it . When a man loses his integrity , he loses the foundation of his virtue .
Truth osten suffers more from the heat of its defenders , than from the argument of
its opposers . Nothing does reason more right , than the coolness of those who
offer it . When a man loses his integrity , he loses the foundation of his virtue .
第 19 頁
No preacher is so successful as time . It gives a turn to thought to the aged ,
which it was impossible to inspire • while they were young . * The injuries we do ,
and those we suffer , are seldom weigh ed in the same balance . Men generally
put a ...
No preacher is so successful as time . It gives a turn to thought to the aged ,
which it was impossible to inspire • while they were young . * The injuries we do ,
and those we suffer , are seldom weigh ed in the same balance . Men generally
put a ...
第 27 頁
Satisfied with that atonement , he then discovered a serenity in his countenance ;
and when the fire attacked his body , he seemed to be quite insensible of his
outward suffer . ings , and by the force of hope and resolution , to have collected
his ...
Satisfied with that atonement , he then discovered a serenity in his countenance ;
and when the fire attacked his body , he seemed to be quite insensible of his
outward suffer . ings , and by the force of hope and resolution , to have collected
his ...
第 30 頁
Those few whom Reason was able to extricate , d generally suffered so many
shocks upon the points which shot out from the rocks of Pleasure , that they were
unable to continue their course with the same strength and facility as before , but
...
Those few whom Reason was able to extricate , d generally suffered so many
shocks upon the points which shot out from the rocks of Pleasure , that they were
unable to continue their course with the same strength and facility as before , but
...
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第 202 頁 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps...
第 269 頁 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and...
第 201 頁 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
第 198 頁 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
第 169 頁 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school. The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
第 262 頁 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
第 109 頁 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
第 197 頁 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
第 197 頁 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness: And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts; and choking sighs. Which ne'er might be repeated...
第 223 頁 - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.