THE ENGLISH READERManahan, Hoag & Company, 1827 |
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... thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industrious , peaceable and contented . Art thou wealthy ? -Show thy . self beneficent and charitable , condescending and humane . Though religion removes not all the evils of life ; though it ...
... thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industrious , peaceable and contented . Art thou wealthy ? -Show thy . self beneficent and charitable , condescending and humane . Though religion removes not all the evils of life ; though it ...
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... thou been to me : thy love for me was wonderful ; passing the love of women . 66 99 Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near Zutphen , was wound- ed by a musket ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a ...
... thou been to me : thy love for me was wonderful ; passing the love of women . 66 99 Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near Zutphen , was wound- ed by a musket ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a ...
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... thou mayest be truly wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebuke , is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him ...
... thou mayest be truly wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebuke , is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him ...
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... thou the God of thy fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind . If thou seek him , he will be found of thee ; but if thou forsake him , he will cast thee off for ever . SECTION IX . THAT every day has its ...
... thou the God of thy fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind . If thou seek him , he will be found of thee ; but if thou forsake him , he will cast thee off for ever . SECTION IX . THAT every day has its ...
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... thou a mind , Damocles , " says the king , " to taste this happiness ; and to know , by experience , what the enjoyments are , of which thou hast so high an idea ? " Da- mocles , with joy , accepted the offer . The king ordered that a ...
... thou a mind , Damocles , " says the king , " to taste this happiness ; and to know , by experience , what the enjoyments are , of which thou hast so high an idea ? " Da- mocles , with joy , accepted the offer . The king ordered that a ...
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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
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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.