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: to 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 ReadingEvert Duyckinck, 1810 - 231 páginas |
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... reflection which has long since passed into a pro- verb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind ; and is connected with ...
... reflection which has long since passed into a pro- verb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind ; and is connected with ...
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... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of world- ly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the va- nity of the world , facts ...
... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of world- ly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the va- nity of the world , facts ...
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... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much tor- ment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its plea- sures ...
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much tor- ment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its plea- sures ...
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... reflections ! They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of ...
... reflections ! They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of ...
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... reflecting , the air grew blacken , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation . He now resolved to do what yet remained in his power , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and try to find some issue where the wood might open ...
... reflecting , the air grew blacken , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation . He now resolved to do what yet remained in his power , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and try to find some issue where the wood might open ...
Términos y frases comunes
ADHERBAL ANTIPAROS appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cendant character cheer comforts dark death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha king labours LADY JANE GREY live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
Pasajes populares
Página 225 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 202 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 178 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 238 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Página 219 - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
Página 189 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Página 118 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews. Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Página 185 - He spied far off upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent :
Página 238 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Página 248 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.