The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a Variety of Selected & Original Pieces, Narrative, Didactive, Argumentative, Poetical, Descriptive, Pathetic, Humourous, and Entertaining, Together with Dialogues, Speeches, Orations, Addresses, & Harangues : Calculated to Improve the Scholar in Reading and Speaking with Propriety and Elegance, and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Virtue and Religion : Designed for the Use of Schools and Families |
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... wise man carries all his treasure within himself . What fortune gives , she may take away ; but a wise man does not depend upon her mercy , and is therefore beyond her reach . " Tis education forms the common mind , Just as the twig is ...
... wise man carries all his treasure within himself . What fortune gives , she may take away ; but a wise man does not depend upon her mercy , and is therefore beyond her reach . " Tis education forms the common mind , Just as the twig is ...
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... wise ; and if those cannot be met with , the next point is to keep no company at all . It requires time to deliberate upon friendship ; but the resolution once taken , my friend is entitled to the secrets of my heart ; and I look upon ...
... wise ; and if those cannot be met with , the next point is to keep no company at all . It requires time to deliberate upon friendship ; but the resolution once taken , my friend is entitled to the secrets of my heart ; and I look upon ...
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... wise man ; but rests only in the bosom of fools . The temperate man's pleasures are durable , because they are regular ; and his life calm and serene , because it is innocent . gov- A good conscience is to the soul , what health is to ...
... wise man ; but rests only in the bosom of fools . The temperate man's pleasures are durable , because they are regular ; and his life calm and serene , because it is innocent . gov- A good conscience is to the soul , what health is to ...
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... wise - but who infèrs from hence , That such are bappier , shocks all common sense . The immortal mind , perhaps , will quit a cottage with less regret than it would the splendour of a palace ; and the breathless dust sleep as quietly ...
... wise - but who infèrs from hence , That such are bappier , shocks all common sense . The immortal mind , perhaps , will quit a cottage with less regret than it would the splendour of a palace ; and the breathless dust sleep as quietly ...
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... wise man will consider this life only as it may conduce to the happiness of the other ; and cheerfully sacrifice the pleasures of a few years to those of eternity . Money , like manure , does no good till it is spread ; there is no real ...
... wise man will consider this life only as it may conduce to the happiness of the other ; and cheerfully sacrifice the pleasures of a few years to those of eternity . Money , like manure , does no good till it is spread ; there is no real ...
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Page 41 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places. How are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 217 - 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 ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns ; To him no high, no low, no great, no small : He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 41 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 216 - ... sight betwixt each wide extreme, the mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; of smell, the headlong lioness between, and hound sagacious on the tainted green ; of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, to that which warbles through the vernal wood; the spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 134 - ... they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Page 134 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 216 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood!
Page 41 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Page 217 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 90 - are these the principal inhabitants of Calais?" "They are," says Mauny; " they are not only the principal men of Calais, they are the principal men of France, my lord, if virtue has any share in the act of ennobling.