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 стор. |
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... feel , that there is nothing too hard for industry and perseverance to accomplish . In his early and timid flights , let him know that stronger pinions are near and ready to sustain him , but only in case of absolute necessity . When in ...
... feel , that there is nothing too hard for industry and perseverance to accomplish . In his early and timid flights , let him know that stronger pinions are near and ready to sustain him , but only in case of absolute necessity . When in ...
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... feel the good or ill effects of your conduct , long after you shall have gone to render up your account at his bar . How imperi- ous , to beings in such a state , is the duty of consider- ation ! How wise , how all important to inquire ...
... feel the good or ill effects of your conduct , long after you shall have gone to render up your account at his bar . How imperi- ous , to beings in such a state , is the duty of consider- ation ! How wise , how all important to inquire ...
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... feel the good they have , Nor yet unworthy care that knows no bound . Illumined by the rays of truth divine , The universe a lovely aspect wears , From its Creator's universal smile . About its vast circumference his arms In tender love ...
... feel the good they have , Nor yet unworthy care that knows no bound . Illumined by the rays of truth divine , The universe a lovely aspect wears , From its Creator's universal smile . About its vast circumference his arms In tender love ...
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... feel a disgust at every thing that is low , unworthy and vicious , and be inspired with a desire to advance in whatever is praiseworthy and good . It is needless to add , the opposite of all this is the certain consequence of intimacy ...
... feel a disgust at every thing that is low , unworthy and vicious , and be inspired with a desire to advance in whatever is praiseworthy and good . It is needless to add , the opposite of all this is the certain consequence of intimacy ...
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... feel disgusted at the trifles which used to satisfy it , and aspire to pursuits and pleasures of the highest order . To be prepared for the great change - meetened for a world of intellectual and spiritual enjoyment , will then appear ...
... feel disgusted at the trifles which used to satisfy it , and aspire to pursuits and pleasures of the highest order . To be prepared for the great change - meetened for a world of intellectual and spiritual enjoyment , will then appear ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 91 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Сторінка 132 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 173 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
Сторінка 205 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity ; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course (wheel) of nature ; and it is set on fire of hell.
Сторінка 238 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Сторінка 172 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; 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 churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.