THE ENGLISH READERManahan, Hoag & Company, 1827 |
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... religion in the most amiable light ; and which recommend a great variety of moral duties , by the excellence of their nature , and the happy effects they produce . These subjects are exhibited in a style and manner which are calculated ...
... religion in the most amiable light ; and which recommend a great variety of moral duties , by the excellence of their nature , and the happy effects they produce . These subjects are exhibited in a style and manner which are calculated ...
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... religious instruction derives its efficacy , not so much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion ...
... religious instruction derives its efficacy , not so much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion ...
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... religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so- cial , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy and illiberal superstition , which clouds the brow , sharpens the ...
... religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so- cial , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy and illiberal superstition , which clouds the brow , sharpens the ...
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... religion and virtue ; and , lastly , that it is most conducive to our happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence ...
... religion and virtue ; and , lastly , that it is most conducive to our happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence ...
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... religion removes not all the evils of life ; though it promises no continuance of undisturbed prosperity , ( which indeed it were not salutary for man always to enjoy , ) yet , if it mitigates the evils which necessarily belong to our ...
... religion removes not all the evils of life ; though it promises no continuance of undisturbed prosperity , ( which indeed it were not salutary for man always to enjoy , ) yet , if it mitigates the evils which necessarily belong to our ...
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Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing bliss breast Caius Verres cheerful dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes father favour fear feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human indulge innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look mankind mercy Micipsa mind misery nature nature's never night noble lords Numidia o'er pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter religion render rest riches rise Roman Roman Senate scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smiles solitude sorrow soul sound spect spirit spring sweet tears temper tempest thee things thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise youth
Popular passages
Page 214 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, , Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 183 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 219 - 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.
Page 173 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 23 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 220 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 207 - And darkness and doubt are now flying away ; No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn. So breaks on the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom ! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Page 232 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 225 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher death, and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is, but always to be blest.
Page 238 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.