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 ; 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 ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 pages |
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... nature of these pauses is intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which can seldom be exactly measured . Sometimes it is only a slight and simple suspension of voice that is proper ; sometimes a degree of cadence in the voice ...
... nature of these pauses is intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which can seldom be exactly measured . Sometimes it is only a slight and simple suspension of voice that is proper ; sometimes a degree of cadence in the voice ...
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... nature disap- pointing , is in constant search of care` , solicitude ' , remorse ' , and con- fusion " " To advise the ignorant , relieve the needy ' comfort the afflicted ' , are duties that fail in our way , almost every day of our ...
... nature disap- pointing , is in constant search of care` , solicitude ' , remorse ' , and con- fusion " " To advise the ignorant , relieve the needy ' comfort the afflicted ' , are duties that fail in our way , almost every day of our ...
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... nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness to grasp , we strangle ...
... nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness to grasp , we strangle ...
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... nature . ury , pride , and vanity , have frequently as much influ- ence in corrupting the sentiments of the great , as ignorance , bigotry , and prejudice , have in misleading the opinions of the multitude . Mixed as the present state ...
... nature . ury , pride , and vanity , have frequently as much influ- ence in corrupting the sentiments of the great , as ignorance , bigotry , and prejudice , have in misleading the opinions of the multitude . Mixed as the present state ...
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... 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 of doing good , a sufficient reward ? Do not hurt yourselves or others ...
... 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 of doing good , a sufficient reward ? Do not hurt yourselves or others ...
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Page 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 231 - 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.
Page 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.