THE ENGLISH READERManahan, Hoag & Company, 1827 |
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... spirit of the sentiments which he is to pronounce . For to lay the emphasis with exact propriety , is a constant exercise of good sense and attention . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive ...
... spirit of the sentiments which he is to pronounce . For to lay the emphasis with exact propriety , is a constant exercise of good sense and attention . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive ...
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... spirit of the au- thor's sentiments , as well as into the meaning of his words , we shall not fail to deliver the words in properly varied tones . For there are few people , who speak English without a provincial note , that have not an ...
... spirit of the au- thor's sentiments , as well as into the meaning of his words , we shall not fail to deliver the words in properly varied tones . For there are few people , who speak English without a provincial note , that have not an ...
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... spirits , who , by long custom , have contracted in the body ha- bits of lust ' and sensuality ; malice ' , and revenge ; an aversion to every thing that is good ' , just ' , and laudable ' , are naturally seasoned and prepared for pain ...
... spirits , who , by long custom , have contracted in the body ha- bits of lust ' and sensuality ; malice ' , and revenge ; an aversion to every thing that is good ' , just ' , and laudable ' , are naturally seasoned and prepared for pain ...
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... spirit , and moderate expectations , are excellent safeguards of the mind , in this uncertain and changing state . There is nothing , except simplicity of intention , and NOTE . In the first chapter , the compiler has exibited sentences ...
... spirit , and moderate expectations , are excellent safeguards of the mind , in this uncertain and changing state . There is nothing , except simplicity of intention , and NOTE . In the first chapter , the compiler has exibited sentences ...
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... spirit . Patience , by preserving composure within , resists the impression which trouble makes from without . Compassionate affections , even when they draw tears from our eyes for human misery , convey satisfaction to the heart . They ...
... spirit . Patience , by preserving composure within , resists the impression which trouble makes from without . Compassionate affections , even when they draw tears from our eyes for human misery , convey satisfaction to the heart . They ...
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Common terms and phrases
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.