The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and PoetryE. and G. Merriam, 1826 |
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... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , , & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , , & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
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... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise ...
... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise ...
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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have establish- ed our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have establish- ed our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we ...
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... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructor will lift his voice , and awaken with- in the heart those latent suggestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusemest often becomes the business ...
... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructor will lift his voice , and awaken with- in the heart those latent suggestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusemest often becomes the business ...
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... truth . " L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
... truth . " L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
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Page 219 - Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels...
Page 227 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 228 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 222 - 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.
Page 238 - That, chang'd 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...
Page 223 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill ; For thou, O Lord ! art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
Page 228 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored 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: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Page 188 - 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 glow-worm 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...
Page 202 - There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
Page 197 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.