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: to 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 ReadingEvert Duyckinck, 1810 - 231 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xiv
... human species . " " He who resigns the world , has no temptation to envy ' , hatred ' , ma- lice ' , anger ' ; but is in constant possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature ...
... human species . " " He who resigns the world , has no temptation to envy ' , hatred ' , ma- lice ' , anger ' ; but is in constant possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature ...
Σελίδα 18
... human life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your pursuits . To maintain a steady and unbroken mind , amidst all the shocks of the world ...
... human life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your pursuits . To maintain a steady and unbroken mind , amidst all the shocks of the world ...
Σελίδα 19
... human nature . Luxury , prids , 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 ...
... human nature . Luxury , prids , 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 ...
Σελίδα 21
... human life ; without either loading it with imaginary evils , or expecting from it greater advantages than it is able to yield . Among all our corrupt passions , there is a strong and inti- mate connection . When any one of them is ...
... human life ; without either loading it with imaginary evils , or expecting from it greater advantages than it is able to yield . Among all our corrupt passions , there is a strong and inti- mate connection . When any one of them is ...
Σελίδα 24
... ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their per- sons , fortunes , and dignities , ) I presume the self - love , com- mon to human nature , would generally make them prefer 24 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their per- sons , fortunes , and dignities , ) I presume the self - love , com- mon to human nature , would generally make them prefer 24 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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Σελίδα 225 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Σελίδα 202 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Σελίδα 178 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Σελίδα 238 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Σελίδα 219 - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
Σελίδα 189 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Σελίδα 118 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews. Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Σελίδα 185 - He spied far off upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent :
Σελίδα 238 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Σελίδα 248 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.