The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science and Literature, to Refine the Taste, and to Improve the Moral Character. Designed for the Use of SchoolsD.F. Robinson, 1828 - 276 Seiten |
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... better calculated to inspire the young with a taste for science and literature , and to instil correct moral principles , than any which have before appeared . It appears highly important that the rising generation should be deeply ...
... better calculated to inspire the young with a taste for science and literature , and to instil correct moral principles , than any which have before appeared . It appears highly important that the rising generation should be deeply ...
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... better than by an extract from the works of Count Rumford , who , in few and strong words , has fortified my doctrine : - " With what care and atten- tion do the feathered race wash themselves , and put their plumage in order ! and how ...
... better than by an extract from the works of Count Rumford , who , in few and strong words , has fortified my doctrine : - " With what care and atten- tion do the feathered race wash themselves , and put their plumage in order ! and how ...
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... better than by referring my readers to their own experience . Which of them does not know some few persons , at least , from whose habitual disregard of truth they have often suffered ; and with whom they find inti- macy unpleasant , as ...
... better than by referring my readers to their own experience . Which of them does not know some few persons , at least , from whose habitual disregard of truth they have often suffered ; and with whom they find inti- macy unpleasant , as ...
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... better than a nonentity , whose sim- ple assertion is not credited immediately . Those whose words no one dares to repeat , without naming the author- ity , lest the information conveyed by them should be too implicitly credited , such ...
... better than a nonentity , whose sim- ple assertion is not credited immediately . Those whose words no one dares to repeat , without naming the author- ity , lest the information conveyed by them should be too implicitly credited , such ...
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... better , I believe , " she dryly replied , not trying to conceal the sarcastic smile , which played upon her lip , and feeling strengthened , by this new instance of Jemima's duplicity , to go on with her design ; but Jemima thought she ...
... better , I believe , " she dryly replied , not trying to conceal the sarcastic smile , which played upon her lip , and feeling strengthened , by this new instance of Jemima's duplicity , to go on with her design ; but Jemima thought she ...
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Seite 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Seite 89 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Seite 169 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Seite 89 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Seite 89 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Seite 90 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending...
Seite 198 - Publish it from the pulpit: religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it or fall with it. Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Seite 171 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Seite 195 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Seite 237 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.