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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... 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 in- quire how they are to fulfil the great end of their ...
... 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 in- quire how they are to fulfil the great end of their ...
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... whole tenor of his life , to exemplify the vir- tues they express . Such a man has decision of character ; -he knows what is right and is firm in doing it . Such a man has independence of character ; -he thinks and acts for him- self ...
... whole tenor of his life , to exemplify the vir- tues they express . Such a man has decision of character ; -he knows what is right and is firm in doing it . Such a man has independence of character ; -he thinks and acts for him- self ...
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... whole nations would have been occa- sionally deprived of these elements , so essential to human existence . Yet , notwithstanding the prevalence of such depraved dispositions , the streams of Divine benevolence towards our apostate race ...
... whole nations would have been occa- sionally deprived of these elements , so essential to human existence . Yet , notwithstanding the prevalence of such depraved dispositions , the streams of Divine benevolence towards our apostate race ...
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... whole grand universe Is not an empty monument of fame ; Nor yet a monument , on a wide waste Erected , for no purpose known to man . ' Tis not a pageant bright , o'er an expanse Illimitable , moving with vain pomp , In revolutions vain ...
... whole grand universe Is not an empty monument of fame ; Nor yet a monument , on a wide waste Erected , for no purpose known to man . ' Tis not a pageant bright , o'er an expanse Illimitable , moving with vain pomp , In revolutions vain ...
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... whole written word . ' Tis the deep root , that to this tree of life All its vitality and beauty gives . Turn we again to nature , with the book Of inspiration open in our hands To be our guide , no longer need we seek For single tokens ...
... whole written word . ' Tis the deep root , that to this tree of life All its vitality and beauty gives . Turn we again to nature , with the book Of inspiration open in our hands To be our guide , no longer need we seek For single tokens ...
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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.