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 páginas |
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... presents nothing to view but one wide tract of uncultivated ground ; a soul distemper- ed with spleen , remorse , and insensibility of each rational satisfaction , darkens and discolours every object ; and the change is not in the times ...
... presents nothing to view but one wide tract of uncultivated ground ; a soul distemper- ed with spleen , remorse , and insensibility of each rational satisfaction , darkens and discolours every object ; and the change is not in the times ...
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... present mo- ment and for present gratification . As if the whole of their existence were comprised in the passing hour , and they had no concern in any future duty or event , they never cast forward a thought to their coming days , nor ...
... present mo- ment and for present gratification . As if the whole of their existence were comprised in the passing hour , and they had no concern in any future duty or event , they never cast forward a thought to their coming days , nor ...
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... , and to treasure up much useful knowledge . The means of intellectual improvement were never more abundant or accessible to all classes of persons , than at the present day ; and I may add , THE AMERICAN READER . 15.
... , and to treasure up much useful knowledge . The means of intellectual improvement were never more abundant or accessible to all classes of persons , than at the present day ; and I may add , THE AMERICAN READER . 15.
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... present day ; and I may add , never were there stron- ger inducements for young men to avail themselves of those means , and to aim at high attainments in knowledge . So- ciety is rapidly advancing in general improvement ; the field of ...
... present day ; and I may add , never were there stron- ger inducements for young men to avail themselves of those means , and to aim at high attainments in knowledge . So- ciety is rapidly advancing in general improvement ; the field of ...
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... present . Think of yourselves as retiring from the scene of action ; your heads whitened with the snows of age , and your limbs stiffened with the frosts of winter . O , how cheering to be able now , to look back upon a life of ...
... present . Think of yourselves as retiring from the scene of action ; your heads whitened with the snows of age , and your limbs stiffened with the frosts of winter . O , how cheering to be able now , to look back upon a life of ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 169 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 90 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending...
Página 198 - Publish it from the pulpit: religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it or fall with it. Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Página 171 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 195 - 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.
Página 237 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.