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 Seiten |
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... rise to cravings which are never satisfied ; nourishes a sickly , effeminate delicacy which sours and corrupts every pleasure . SECTION VI . We have seen the husbandman scattering his seed the furrowed ground ! It springs up , is ...
... rise to cravings which are never satisfied ; nourishes a sickly , effeminate delicacy which sours and corrupts every pleasure . SECTION VI . We have seen the husbandman scattering his seed the furrowed ground ! It springs up , is ...
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... rise in the morning of youth , full of vigour , and fu expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope , w gaiety and with diligence , and travel on a while in the rect road of piety towards the mansions of rest 15. " Ia short time ...
... rise in the morning of youth , full of vigour , and fu expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope , w gaiety and with diligence , and travel on a while in the rect road of piety towards the mansions of rest 15. " Ia short time ...
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... rise above one another by several different degrees of perfection . 7. For , to return to our statue in the block of marble , we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped , sometimes rough hewn , and but just sketched into a human ...
... rise above one another by several different degrees of perfection . 7. For , to return to our statue in the block of marble , we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped , sometimes rough hewn , and but just sketched into a human ...
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... rise from those narrow concep tions , which we are apt to entertain of the Divine Nature . We ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time . If we are careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect ...
... rise from those narrow concep tions , which we are apt to entertain of the Divine Nature . We ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time . If we are careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect ...
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... rise , and no winds to blow , as that our life were long to proceed without receiving provocations from human frailty . The careless and the imprudent , the giddy , and the fickle , the ungrateful and the interested , every where meet ...
... rise , and no winds to blow , as that our life were long to proceed without receiving provocations from human frailty . The careless and the imprudent , the giddy , and the fickle , the ungrateful and the interested , every where meet ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er oper countenance ourselves pain passions pause peace persons pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Seite 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.
Seite 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Seite 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.