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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... Heavens , Painful Results of Lying , The Turban ; or the Lie of Flattery , The Ivy . Addressed to a Young Friend , Christ stilling the Tempest , Advantages of History , Discovery of America , Dick 43 46 68 47 49 ( 6 51 Mrs Opie 53 66 56 ...
... Heavens , Painful Results of Lying , The Turban ; or the Lie of Flattery , The Ivy . Addressed to a Young Friend , Christ stilling the Tempest , Advantages of History , Discovery of America , Dick 43 46 68 47 49 ( 6 51 Mrs Opie 53 66 56 ...
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... heavens the variegated colouring which is spread over the scene of nature - the beautiful flowers , shrubs , and trees , with which the earth is adorned , which not only delight the eye , but perfume the air with their delicious odors ...
... heavens the variegated colouring which is spread over the scene of nature - the beautiful flowers , shrubs , and trees , with which the earth is adorned , which not only delight the eye , but perfume the air with their delicious odors ...
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... heaven , had been placed within the limits of their controul , it is more than probable , that whole nations would have been occa- sionally deprived of these elements , so essential to human existence . Yet , notwithstanding the ...
... heaven , had been placed within the limits of their controul , it is more than probable , that whole nations would have been occa- sionally deprived of these elements , so essential to human existence . Yet , notwithstanding the ...
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... heaven sublime Were not created for the mere display Of power and skill immeasurably great ; Nor men and angels merely to admire The wondrous fabric , and its author praise With lofty songs . The whole grand universe Is not an empty ...
... heaven sublime Were not created for the mere display Of power and skill immeasurably great ; Nor men and angels merely to admire The wondrous fabric , and its author praise With lofty songs . The whole grand universe Is not an empty ...
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... heaven , innumerable , descend On all the earth , silent , and uniform , Like dew distilling from a smiling sky , Or like the steady falling of a shower When the sun shines , and gilds the drops in air , And on the quivering leaves ...
... heaven , innumerable , descend On all the earth , silent , and uniform , Like dew distilling from a smiling sky , Or like the steady falling of a shower When the sun shines , and gilds the drops in air , And on the quivering leaves ...
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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 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 91 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Página 132 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
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 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 173 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
Página 205 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity ; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course (wheel) of nature ; and it is set on fire of hell.
Página 238 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Página 172 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; 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 churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.