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 ...Samuel Mills, 1817 - 288 páginas |
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... , with judgment and accuracy . That this collection may also serve the purpose of pro moting piety and virtue , the Compiler has introduced many extracts which place religion in the most amiable light ; A 2 PREFACE .
... , with judgment and accuracy . That this collection may also serve the purpose of pro moting piety and virtue , the Compiler has introduced many extracts which place religion in the most amiable light ; A 2 PREFACE .
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... light ; ant which recommend a great variety of moral duties by the ex- sellence of their nature , and the happy effects which they produce . These subjects are exhibited in a style and man- ner , which are calculated to arrest the ...
... light ; ant which recommend a great variety of moral duties by the ex- sellence of their nature , and the happy effects which they produce . These subjects are exhibited in a style and man- ner , which are calculated to arrest the ...
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... light in comparison of those inward distresses of mind , occasioned by folly , by passion and by guilt . No station is so high , no power so great , no character se unblemished , as to exempt men from the attacks of rashness malice or ...
... light in comparison of those inward distresses of mind , occasioned by folly , by passion and by guilt . No station is so high , no power so great , no character se unblemished , as to exempt men from the attacks of rashness malice or ...
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... light of day : not like the aromatic gale which sometimes feasts the sense ; but like the ordinary breeze , which purifies the air , and renders it healthful . The happiness of every man depends more upon the state of his owi mind ...
... light of day : not like the aromatic gale which sometimes feasts the sense ; but like the ordinary breeze , which purifies the air , and renders it healthful . The happiness of every man depends more upon the state of his owi mind ...
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... light covers her face . Observe the progress of her votaries : be silent and attentive . " After I had noticed a variety of objects , I turned my eye towards the multitudes who were climbing the steep ascent ; and observed amongst them ...
... light covers her face . Observe the progress of her votaries : be silent and attentive . " After I had noticed a variety of objects , I turned my eye towards the multitudes who were climbing the steep ascent ; and observed amongst them ...
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Página 246 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ; Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página 248 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Página 187 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Página 119 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Página 223 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Página 251 - With friendship, peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish. Thought fond man Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills, That one incessant struggle render life, One scene of toil, of suffering, and of fate...
Página 84 - Were the soul separate from the body, and with one glance of thought should start beyond the bounds of the creation, should it for millions of years continue its progress through infinite space with the same activity, it would still find itself within the embrace of its Creator, and encompassed round with the immensity of the Godhead. Whilst we are in the body he is not less present with us because he is concealed from us. " O that I knew where I might find him!
Página 96 - The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it*: and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to him, who is not only the standard of perfection but of happiness ! L.
Página xxii - 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.
Página 236 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.