The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ...L. Lockwood, 1815 - 262 ページ |
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... religion in the most amiable light ; and which re- commend a great variety of moral duties , by the excellence of their nature , and the happy effects they produce . These sub- jects are exhibited in a style and manner , which are ...
... religion in the most amiable light ; and which re- commend a great variety of moral duties , by the excellence of their nature , and the happy effects they produce . These sub- jects are exhibited in a style and manner , which are ...
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... religion , and to the acquisition of a correct and elegant style . They deserve to take place of all other works of the same kind which are now used in our schools . " American Review . INTRODUCTION . VATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD ...
... religion , and to the acquisition of a correct and elegant style . They deserve to take place of all other works of the same kind which are now used in our schools . " American Review . INTRODUCTION . VATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD ...
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... religious instruction derives its efficacy , not se much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion ...
... religious instruction derives its efficacy , not se much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion ...
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... religion breaths mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy and illibe- ral superstition , which clouds the brow , sharpens the tem ...
... religion breaths mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy and illibe- ral superstition , which clouds the brow , sharpens the tem ...
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... religion and virtue ; and , lastly , that it is most conducive to our happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence ...
... religion and virtue ; and , lastly , that it is most conducive to our happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence ...
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234 ページ - 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.
210 ページ - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
34 ページ - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
197 ページ - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
224 ページ - Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford.
196 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...
125 ページ - And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee...
198 ページ - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night,...
192 ページ - Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...
124 ページ - And now I stand, and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers; unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come; for which hope's sake, King Agrippa I am accused of the Jews.