The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading

Harder, 1836 - 250 pages

The hill of science	iii

CHAPTER	v

Human frailty	17

Schemes of life often illusory	141

The pleasures of virtuous sensibility	143

On the true honour of man	145

The influence of devotion on the happiness of life	146

The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered	148

Verses containing exclamations interrogations and parentheses	175

Verses in various forms	177

Verses in which sound corresponds to signification	179

Paragraphs of greater length	180

The bear and the bees	182

The nightingale and the glowworm	183

The trials of virtue	184

The youth and the philosopher	186

On the power of custom and the uses to which it may be applied 150	150

The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties 17 Description ofcandour ib 18 On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on...	154

What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life	157

Scale of beings	158

Trust in the care of Providence recommended	161

Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity	162

Virtue when deeply rooted is not subject to the influence of fortune	164

The Speech of Fabricius a Roman ambassador to king Pyrrhus	165

Character of James I king of England	166

Charles V emperor of Germany resigns his dominions and retires from the world	167

The same subject continued	170

Short and easy sentences	172

Verses in which the lines are of different length	174

Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest	187

Religion and death	189

The vanity of wealth	191

Nothing formed in vain	192

On pride ib 4 Cruelty to brutes censured	193

A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapter of Matthew	194

The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtuo	195

Reflections on a future state from a review of winter ib 8 Adams advice to Eve to avoid temptation	196

On procrastination	197

That philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved	198

Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and hatred and on slavery	199

Promiscuous Pieces	252

Title	The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading
Author	Lindley Murray
Publisher	Harder, 1836
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	4 Mar 2009
Length	250 pages

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