The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingLincoln & Edmands, 1824 - 273 ページ |
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... peace and safety ; without any particular or uncommon evils to afflict our condition ; what more can we reasonably look for in this vain and uncer- tain world ? How little can the greatest prosperity add to such a state ! Will any ...
... peace and safety ; without any particular or uncommon evils to afflict our condition ; what more can we reasonably look for in this vain and uncer- tain world ? How little can the greatest prosperity add to such a state ! Will any ...
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... peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ? It is like precious ointment -Like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion . The sluggard will not plough by reason of ...
... peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ? It is like precious ointment -Like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion . The sluggard will not plough by reason of ...
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... peace will be impaired . But if any which has the taint of guilt , take early possession of our minds , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion , which generally affords the ...
... peace will be impaired . But if any which has the taint of guilt , take early possession of our minds , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion , which generally affords the ...
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... peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that mis- ery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the ...
... peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that mis- ery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the ...
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... peace and repose , would be strangers to human life . 2. Injuries retaliated according to the exorbitant measure which passion prescribes , would excite resent- ment in return . The injured person would become the injurer , and thus ...
... peace and repose , would be strangers to human life . 2. Injuries retaliated according to the exorbitant measure which passion prescribes , would excite resent- ment in return . The injured person would become the injurer , and thus ...
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208 ページ - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
219 ページ - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
17 ページ - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
137 ページ - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
96 ページ - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
72 ページ - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
108 ページ - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
202 ページ - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in .the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
281 ページ - Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
17 ページ - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...