The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...Lincoln and Edmands, 1815 - Всего страниц: 264 |
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... live well to day , ( fays Martial , ) will be lefs qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man profperous , who is raised to a fituation which flatters his paffions , but which corrupts his principles , diforders his ...
... live well to day , ( fays Martial , ) will be lefs qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man profperous , who is raised to a fituation which flatters his paffions , but which corrupts his principles , diforders his ...
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... lives with his own faults and follies always before him ; and who has none to rec- oncile him to himself by praife and veneration . I have long fought content , and have not found it ; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich ...
... lives with his own faults and follies always before him ; and who has none to rec- oncile him to himself by praife and veneration . I have long fought content , and have not found it ; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich ...
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... lives with horror , with forrow , with repentance ; and wifh , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forfaken the ways of virtue . Happy are they , my fon , who shall learn from thy example , not to despair ; but fhall remember ...
... lives with horror , with forrow , with repentance ; and wifh , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forfaken the ways of virtue . Happy are they , my fon , who shall learn from thy example , not to despair ; but fhall remember ...
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... lives in perpetual dread ! Looking upon himself to be furrounded with fpies , enemies , and defigning men , he is a ftranger to reliance and truft . He knows not to whom to open himself . He dreffes his countenance in forced finiles ...
... lives in perpetual dread ! Looking upon himself to be furrounded with fpies , enemies , and defigning men , he is a ftranger to reliance and truft . He knows not to whom to open himself . He dreffes his countenance in forced finiles ...
Стр. 59
... live in perpetual hoftility with our fellows . This is , for the fake of living , to deprive ourselves of the comfort of life . The man of candour enjoys his fituation , whatever it is , with cheerfulness and peace . Prudence directs ...
... live in perpetual hoftility with our fellows . This is , for the fake of living , to deprive ourselves of the comfort of life . The man of candour enjoys his fituation , whatever it is , with cheerfulness and peace . Prudence directs ...
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Стр. 229 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Стр. 241 - 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...
Стр. 208 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Стр. 211 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Стр. 190 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Стр. 255 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Стр. 226 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Стр. 176 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
Стр. 225 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Стр. 130 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come...