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 Reading |
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... labour we can bestow upon the subject . But the pleasure derived to ourselves and others , from a clear communication of ideas and feelings ; and the strong and durable impressions made thereby on the minds of the reader and the ...
... labour we can bestow upon the subject . But the pleasure derived to ourselves and others , from a clear communication of ideas and feelings ; and the strong and durable impressions made thereby on the minds of the reader and the ...
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... labours with joy and plenty -Thus the man who distributes his fortune with generosity and pr dence , is amply repaid by the gratitude of those whom obliges , by the approbation of his own mind , and by the fa vour of Heaven . Temperance ...
... labours with joy and plenty -Thus the man who distributes his fortune with generosity and pr dence , is amply repaid by the gratitude of those whom obliges , by the approbation of his own mind , and by the fa vour of Heaven . Temperance ...
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... labour and are heavy laden . " What a smiling aspect does the love of parents and chil- dren , of brothers and sisters , of friends and relations , give to every surrounding object , and every returning day ! With hat a lustre does it ...
... labour and are heavy laden . " What a smiling aspect does the love of parents and chil- dren , of brothers and sisters , of friends and relations , give to every surrounding object , and every returning day ! With hat a lustre does it ...
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... labours of industry , and satisfy the most exten- sive desires , if no part of it be suffered to lie waste by negli- gence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out for show , rather than use . When Aristotle was asked , " What ...
... labours of industry , and satisfy the most exten- sive desires , if no part of it be suffered to lie waste by negli- gence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out for show , rather than use . When Aristotle was asked , " What ...
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... labour , began to overcom him ; his breath grew short , and his knees trembled ; and h was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fat when he beheld , through the brambles , the glimmer of taper . 12. He advanced towards the ...
... labour , began to overcom him ; his breath grew short , and his knees trembled ; and h was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fat when he beheld , through the brambles , the glimmer of taper . 12. He advanced towards the ...
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Page 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.
Page 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 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.
Page 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.