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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... to slumber upon it , is death . : If we would judge whether a man is really happy , it is not folely to his houses and lands , to his equipage and his retinue we are to look . Unless we could fee 28 PART I. The English Reader .
... to slumber upon it , is death . : If we would judge whether a man is really happy , it is not folely to his houses and lands , to his equipage and his retinue we are to look . Unless we could fee 28 PART I. The English Reader .
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... look . Unless we could fee farther , and difcern what joy , or what bitterness , his heart feels , we can pronounce little concerning him . The book is well written ; and I have perused it with pleasure and profit . It fhows , firft ...
... look . Unless we could fee farther , and difcern what joy , or what bitterness , his heart feels , we can pronounce little concerning him . The book is well written ; and I have perused it with pleasure and profit . It fhows , firft ...
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... look for in this vain and uncertain world ? How little can the greateft profperity add to fuch a ftate ? Will any future fituation ever make us happy , if now with fo few caufes of grief , we imagine ourselves miferable ! The evil lies ...
... look for in this vain and uncertain world ? How little can the greateft profperity add to fuch a ftate ? Will any future fituation ever make us happy , if now with fo few caufes of grief , we imagine ourselves miferable ! The evil lies ...
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... look with a more impartial eye on the world , they would fee themselves fur- rounded with fufferers ; and find that they are only drink- ing out of that mixed cup , which Providence has prepared for all . " I will reftore thy daughter ...
... look with a more impartial eye on the world , they would fee themselves fur- rounded with fufferers ; and find that they are only drink- ing out of that mixed cup , which Providence has prepared for all . " I will reftore thy daughter ...
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... look impartially about us , we fhall find , that every day has likewife its pleafures and its joys . We fhould cherith fentiments of charity towards all men . The Author of all good nourishes much piety and virtue in hearts that are ...
... look impartially about us , we fhall find , that every day has likewife its pleafures and its joys . We fhould cherith fentiments of charity towards all men . The Author of all good nourishes much piety and virtue in hearts that are ...
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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...