The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect ; Improve Their Language and Sentiments ; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 pages |
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... rich , study not to increase his stores , but to diminish his de- sires . " " The Mexican figures , or picture writing , represent things , not words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understand- ing . " Some sentences ...
... rich , study not to increase his stores , but to diminish his de- sires . " " The Mexican figures , or picture writing , represent things , not words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understand- ing . " Some sentences ...
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... rich embroidery , placed for his favourite . Side boards , load- ed with gold and silver plate of immense value , were arrang- ed in the apartment . 3. Pages of extraordinary beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his ...
... rich embroidery , placed for his favourite . Side boards , load- ed with gold and silver plate of immense value , were arrang- ed in the apartment . 3. Pages of extraordinary beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his ...
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... rich . " 6. Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his cham- ber for six months to deliberate how he should grow rich . He sometimes purposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings of India ; and sometimes ...
... rich . " 6. Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his cham- ber for six months to deliberate how he should grow rich . He sometimes purposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings of India ; and sometimes ...
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... rich by silent profit , and persevering in- dustry . 10. Having sold his patrimony , he engaged in merchan- dise ; and in twenty years purchased lands , on which he raised a house , equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier , to ...
... rich by silent profit , and persevering in- dustry . 10. Having sold his patrimony , he engaged in merchan- dise ; and in twenty years purchased lands , on which he raised a house , equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier , to ...
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... rich , who have not more than they want , there are few rich men in any of the politer nations , but among the middle sort of people , who keep their wishes within their fortunes , and have more wealth than they know how to enjoy . Men ...
... rich , who have not more than they want , there are few rich men in any of the politer nations , but among the middle sort of people , who keep their wishes within their fortunes , and have more wealth than they know how to enjoy . Men ...
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Page 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.