Introduction to the English Reader, Or A Selection of Pieces: In Prose and Poetry, Calculated to Improve the Younger Classes of Learners in Reading, and to Imbue Their Minds with the Love of Virtue. To which are Added, Rules and Observations for Assisting Children to Read with Propriety ... To Which, by the Aid of a Key, is Scrupulously Applied, Mr. Walker's Pronunciation ...Uriah Hunt & Son, 1846 - 162 ページ |
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ǎlōne ǎmóng animal àre ǎway beauty behold betimes bird blessings blest bloom bo'şóm breast breath brother crying colour cóm'fórt cries dear death delight diphthongal earth endeavour eyes father favour fear flowers fond fruit gay bowers gentle give glory ground hand happiness Hast thou hear heàrt Heav'n hum'ble human in'dustry intj joys kind king labour Lamb live look Lord Louis-d'ors mark mind morning mother môûn'tain my-self nature negroes never night nosegay o'er op'ning pain parents pause peace Phillips Academy plain pleaş'ure poor pow'r praise pron reader rest rich rise Rob'ert rose SECTION VII sing skers skies sleep smiling train Soc'ra-teş sorrows soul sound spring stranger stream superiour sweet tears tempest tender thee there'fōre thine thing thou e'er thought tree Tutor universal song vir'tue virtue voice vowel wânts wings words wôûnds young youth
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147 ページ - WAKE, my soul, stretch every nerve, •'*• And press with vigor on : A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. 2 A cloud of witnesses around Hold thee in full survey : Forget the steps already trod, And onward urge thy way. 3...
148 ページ - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
147 ページ - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
130 ページ - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
138 ページ - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
133 ページ - O, HAPPY is the man who hears Instruction's warning voice, And who celestial Wisdom makes His early, only choice. 2 For she has treasures greater far Than east or west unfold ; And her rewards more precious are Than all their stores of gold.
133 ページ - For ten thousand blessings given, For the hope of future joy, Sound his praise through earth and heaven, Sound Jehovah's praise on high.
150 ページ - My thoughts, before they are my own, Are to my God distinctly known ; He knows the words I mean to speak, Ere from my opening lips they break. 3 Within thy circling power I stand ; On every side I find thy hand: Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God. 4 Amazing- knowledge, vast and great ! What large extent ! what lofty height ! My soul, with all the powers I boast, Is in the boundless prospect lost. 5 O may these thoughts possess my breast, Where'er I rove, where'er I rest...
79 ページ - But so it is : one man walks through the world with his eyes open, and another with them shut ; and upon this difference depends all the superiority of knowledge the one acquires above the other.
67 ページ - And what is a conqueror ? Have not you, too, gone about the earth like an evil genius, blasting the fair fruits of peace and industry ; plundering, ravaging, killing, without law, without justice, merely to gratify an insatiable lust for dominion ? All that I have done to a single district with a hundred followers, you have done to whole nations with a hundred thousand. If I have stripped individuals, you have ruined kings and princes. If I have burnt a few hamlets, you have desolated the most flourishing...