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 pages |
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... rising generation should be deeply impressed with the necessity of a pro- per regard for the Sabbath ; and also that the subject of Intemperance , which has been of late so much discussed , should be presented to the youthful mind , in ...
... rising generation should be deeply impressed with the necessity of a pro- per regard for the Sabbath ; and also that the subject of Intemperance , which has been of late so much discussed , should be presented to the youthful mind , in ...
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... rise by personal application . Let him always try his own strength , and try it effec- tually , before he is allowed to call upon Hercules . Put him first upon his own invention ; send him back again and again to the resources of his ...
... rise by personal application . Let him always try his own strength , and try it effec- tually , before he is allowed to call upon Hercules . Put him first upon his own invention ; send him back again and again to the resources of his ...
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... rise in society , or act wor- thily his part in life , without a fair , moral character . The basis of such a ... rising up to take your places , just as the fathers are now look- ing upon you . You will soon pass the meridian of life ...
... rise in society , or act wor- thily his part in life , without a fair , moral character . The basis of such a ... rising up to take your places , just as the fathers are now look- ing upon you . You will soon pass the meridian of life ...
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... rising up under the influence of your example and training , intelligent , virtuous , enterprising ; prepared to fill your places and carry on the system of human affairs . To them you commend all that you hold most dear on earth , the ...
... rising up under the influence of your example and training , intelligent , virtuous , enterprising ; prepared to fill your places and carry on the system of human affairs . To them you commend all that you hold most dear on earth , the ...
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... rise on the evil and on the good , and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust . " " O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness , and for his wonderful works to the children of men . " From such considerations , we learn ...
... rise on the evil and on the good , and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust . " " O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness , and for his wonderful works to the children of men . " From such considerations , we learn ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 169 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 90 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending...
Page 198 - Publish it from the pulpit: religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it or fall with it. Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Page 171 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 195 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 237 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.