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 Seiten |
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... tell you , there is much in it that is fitted to make you serious and thoughtful . You cannot take a just view of your state and prospects , without feeling that you are placed in circumstances of deep and solemn interest . Your Creator ...
... tell you , there is much in it that is fitted to make you serious and thoughtful . You cannot take a just view of your state and prospects , without feeling that you are placed in circumstances of deep and solemn interest . Your Creator ...
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... tell what sights He saw ! what groans he heard in that cold world Below ! where Sin in league with gloomy Death Marched daily through the length and breadth of all The land , wasting at will , and making earth , Fair earth ! a lazar ...
... tell what sights He saw ! what groans he heard in that cold world Below ! where Sin in league with gloomy Death Marched daily through the length and breadth of all The land , wasting at will , and making earth , Fair earth ! a lazar ...
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... tell his gracious deeds before the Throne . LESSON X. Formation of Character . - Addressed to Young Men . HAWES . Ir is ever to be kept in mind that a good name is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion . It is not inherited from ...
... tell his gracious deeds before the Throne . LESSON X. Formation of Character . - Addressed to Young Men . HAWES . Ir is ever to be kept in mind that a good name is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion . It is not inherited from ...
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... tell her that I have a bad toothache , and cannot go ; and I will write her a note to say so ! and at the same time return the ugly turban . " She did so ; -but when she saw Lady Delaval pass to the fine dinner , and heard the carriages ...
... tell her that I have a bad toothache , and cannot go ; and I will write her a note to say so ! and at the same time return the ugly turban . " She did so ; -but when she saw Lady Delaval pass to the fine dinner , and heard the carriages ...
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... tell her the truth , she would hate you like poi- son . " " Very likely ; but see , mamma , what she has given me . What a beautiful bonnet ! But she owed it to me , for the trick she played me , and for her preaching . " " Well , child ...
... tell her the truth , she would hate you like poi- son . " " Very likely ; but see , mamma , what she has given me . What a beautiful bonnet ! But she owed it to me , for the trick she played me , and for her preaching . " " Well , child ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.