The Fourth Reader; Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private Schools |
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... happy when he gains his own approbation , the fool when he gains that of others . If his principles are false , no apology from himself can make them right ; if founded in truth , no censure from others can make them wrong . Though deep ...
... happy when he gains his own approbation , the fool when he gains that of others . If his principles are false , no apology from himself can make them right ; if founded in truth , no censure from others can make them wrong . Though deep ...
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... happy mother kisses oft The tender - hearted child , lays down the book , And asks him if he doth remember still A stranger who once gave him , long agó , A parting kiss , and blessed his laughing èyes . His sobs speak fond remembrance ...
... happy mother kisses oft The tender - hearted child , lays down the book , And asks him if he doth remember still A stranger who once gave him , long agó , A parting kiss , and blessed his laughing èyes . His sobs speak fond remembrance ...
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... happy ? I look upon the past and the present , upon my nearer and remoter subjects , and ask , nor fear the answer . Whom have I wronged ? What province have I oppressed ? What city pillaged ? What region Whose life have I unjustly ...
... happy ? I look upon the past and the present , upon my nearer and remoter subjects , and ask , nor fear the answer . Whom have I wronged ? What province have I oppressed ? What city pillaged ? What region Whose life have I unjustly ...
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... happy isle . When some hand the strain awaking Of my home and native shore , Then ' t was first I wept , O Naxos , That I ne'er should see thee more . Grief . - My boy refused his food , forgot to play , And sickened on the water , day ...
... happy isle . When some hand the strain awaking Of my home and native shore , Then ' t was first I wept , O Naxos , That I ne'er should see thee more . Grief . - My boy refused his food , forgot to play , And sickened on the water , day ...
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... happy man to have finished so young . I do not expect to finish mine as long as I live . " 4. Life is but one great school , and we are all pupils , dif- fering in growth and progress , but all subjects of discipline , all invested with ...
... happy man to have finished so young . I do not expect to finish mine as long as I live . " 4. Life is but one great school , and we are all pupils , dif- fering in growth and progress , but all subjects of discipline , all invested with ...
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Page 374 - Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 403 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 49 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 45 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 24 - Some Books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; That is, some Books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some Books also may be read by deputy...
Page 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me, as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 37 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 352 - 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.
Page 322 - The great trust now descends to new hands. Let us apply ourselves to that which is presented to us, as our appropriate object. We can win no laurels in a war for independence. Earlier and worthier hands have gathered them all. Nor are there places for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them.