The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...Lincoln and Edmands, 1815 - 264 Seiten |
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... MOST IMPORT- ANT PRINCIPLES OF PIETY AND VIRTUE . With a FEW PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING . OC BY LINDLEY MURRAY , 1745-1 Author of an English Grammar , & c . & c . From the tenth English Edition . Boston ...
... MOST IMPORT- ANT PRINCIPLES OF PIETY AND VIRTUE . With a FEW PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING . OC BY LINDLEY MURRAY , 1745-1 Author of an English Grammar , & c . & c . From the tenth English Edition . Boston ...
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... most important principles of piety and virtue . The pieces selected , not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions , and the correspondent tones and variations of voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which ...
... most important principles of piety and virtue . The pieces selected , not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions , and the correspondent tones and variations of voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which ...
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... 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 to arrest 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 to arrest the ...
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... most body , most persevering force of found , to that pitch of voice , to which in converfation we are accustomed . Whereas by fetting out on our highest pitch or key , we certainly allow ourselves lefs compafs , and are likely to ...
... most body , most persevering force of found , to that pitch of voice , to which in converfation we are accustomed . Whereas by fetting out on our highest pitch or key , we certainly allow ourselves lefs compafs , and are likely to ...
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... most important in the sentence , or , on other accounts , to merit this diftinction . The following paffage will serve to exemplify the fuperior emphasis . " Of man's first disobedience , and the fruit " Of that forbidden tree , whose ...
... most important in the sentence , or , on other accounts , to merit this diftinction . The following paffage will serve to exemplify the fuperior emphasis . " Of man's first disobedience , and the fruit " Of that forbidden tree , whose ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 229 - 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.
Seite 241 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 208 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Seite 211 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Seite 190 - 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. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Seite 255 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Seite 226 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Seite 176 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
Seite 225 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Seite 130 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come...