The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingLincoln & Edmands, 1824 - 273 стор. |
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... never to utter a greater quantity of voice , than we can afford without pain to ourselves , and without any extraordinary effort . As long as we keep within these bounds , the other organs of speech will be at liberty to discharge their ...
... never to utter a greater quantity of voice , than we can afford without pain to ourselves , and without any extraordinary effort . As long as we keep within these bounds , the other organs of speech will be at liberty to discharge their ...
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... re- cal , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . Time once past never returns : the moment which is lost is lost forever . There is nothing on earth so stable , as to Chap . 1 . 23 Select Sentences , & c .
... re- cal , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . Time once past never returns : the moment which is lost is lost forever . There is nothing on earth so stable , as to Chap . 1 . 23 Select Sentences , & c .
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... never satisfied ; nourishes a sickly effeminate delicacy , which sours and corrupts every pleasure . SECTION VI . We have seen the husbandman scattering his seed open the furrowed ground ! It springs up , is gathered into his barns ...
... never satisfied ; nourishes a sickly effeminate delicacy , which sours and corrupts every pleasure . SECTION VI . We have seen the husbandman scattering his seed open the furrowed ground ! It springs up , is gathered into his barns ...
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... never mourned . " The prince made enquiry after such persons ; but found the enquiry vain , and was silent . SECTION VIII . He that hath no rule over his own spirit , is like a city that is broken down , and without walls . A soft ...
... never mourned . " The prince made enquiry after such persons ; but found the enquiry vain , and was silent . SECTION VIII . He that hath no rule over his own spirit , is like a city that is broken down , and without walls . A soft ...
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... never seen the righteous forsaken , nor his seed begging bread . It is better to be a door - keeper in the house of the Lord , than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . I have seen the wicked in great power ; and spreading himself like ...
... never seen the righteous forsaken , nor his seed begging bread . It is better to be a door - keeper in the house of the Lord , than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . I have seen the wicked in great power ; and spreading himself like ...
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Сторінка 208 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Сторінка 219 - 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...
Сторінка 17 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Сторінка 137 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Сторінка 96 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Сторінка 72 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Сторінка 108 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Сторінка 202 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in .the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
Сторінка 281 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Сторінка 17 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...