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 ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 頁 |
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... fortune , 4. The speech of Fabricius , a Roman ambassador , to king Pyrrhus , who attempted to bribe him to his interests , by the offer of a great sum of money , 25 Character of James I. king of England , 174 175 176 · 179 26. Charles ...
... fortune , 4. The speech of Fabricius , a Roman ambassador , to king Pyrrhus , who attempted to bribe him to his interests , by the offer of a great sum of money , 25 Character of James I. king of England , 174 175 176 · 179 26. Charles ...
第 30 頁
... fortune ; and by no alteration of circum- stances is likely to be remedied . When the love of unwarrantable pleasures , and of vicious companions , is allowed to amuse young persons , to engross their time , and to stir up their ...
... fortune ; and by no alteration of circum- stances is likely to be remedied . When the love of unwarrantable pleasures , and of vicious companions , is allowed to amuse young persons , to engross their time , and to stir up their ...
第 31 頁
... fortunes , and dignities , ) - I presume the self - love , common to human nature , would generally make them pre- fer their own condition . We have obliged some persons : -very well ! -what would we have more ? Is not the consciousness ...
... fortunes , and dignities , ) - I presume the self - love , common to human nature , would generally make them pre- fer their own condition . We have obliged some persons : -very well ! -what would we have more ? Is not the consciousness ...
第 36 頁
... fortune makes on that scanty pro- portion ; it is suprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians . Where so much is suf- fered in common , little room ...
... fortune makes on that scanty pro- portion ; it is suprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians . Where so much is suf- fered in common , little room ...
第 37 頁
... fortune . Amidst all disadvantages of this kind , a pure , a steadfast , and enlightened mind , possessed of strong vir- ' tue , could enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent . assaults of fortune and the elements . It is ...
... fortune . Amidst all disadvantages of this kind , a pure , a steadfast , and enlightened mind , possessed of strong vir- ' tue , could enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent . assaults of fortune and the elements . It is ...
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第 126 頁 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
第 207 頁 - 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.
第 255 頁 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
第 204 頁 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
第 255 頁 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
第 232 頁 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
第 254 頁 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
第 195 頁 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
第 196 頁 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
第 217 頁 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.