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: to 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 ReadingEvert Duyckinck, 1810 - 231 pagina's |
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Pagina 27
... Pride goeth before destruction ; and a haughty spirit before a fall . Hear counsel , and receive instruction , that thou mayest be truly wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an en- emy are deceitful . Open ...
... Pride goeth before destruction ; and a haughty spirit before a fall . Hear counsel , and receive instruction , that thou mayest be truly wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an en- emy are deceitful . Open ...
Pagina 29
... pride creates disappointments , and dishonesty exposes to shame . The ungoverned passions of men betray them into a thousand follies ; their follies into crimes ; and their crimes into misfortunes . When we reflect on the many ...
... pride creates disappointments , and dishonesty exposes to shame . The ungoverned passions of men betray them into a thousand follies ; their follies into crimes ; and their crimes into misfortunes . When we reflect on the many ...
Pagina 34
... PRIDE . BLAIR . AHASUERUS , who is supposed to be the prince known among the Greek historians by the name of Artaxerxes , had advanced to the chief dignity in his kingdom . Haman , an Amalekite , who inherited all the ancient enmity of ...
... PRIDE . BLAIR . AHASUERUS , who is supposed to be the prince known among the Greek historians by the name of Artaxerxes , had advanced to the chief dignity in his kingdom . Haman , an Amalekite , who inherited all the ancient enmity of ...
Pagina 35
... pride , and desire of revenge , rose into fury . With difficulty he restrained himself in public ; but as soon as he came to his own house , he was forced to disclose the agony of his mind . He gathered together his friends and family ...
... pride , and desire of revenge , rose into fury . With difficulty he restrained himself in public ; but as soon as he came to his own house , he was forced to disclose the agony of his mind . He gathered together his friends and family ...
Pagina 41
... Pride beckoned towards the precipice , he ventured to the tottering edge . He delighted in devious and untried paths ; and made so many excursions from the road , that his feebler companions often outstripped him . I observed that the ...
... Pride beckoned towards the precipice , he ventured to the tottering edge . He delighted in devious and untried paths ; and made so many excursions from the road , that his feebler companions often outstripped him . I observed that the ...
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ADHERBAL ANTIPAROS appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cendant character cheer comforts dark death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha king labours LADY JANE GREY live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 225 - 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.
Pagina 202 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Pagina 178 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Pagina 238 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Pagina 219 - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
Pagina 189 - 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 pleased: now...
Pagina 118 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews. Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Pagina 185 - 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 :
Pagina 238 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Pagina 248 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.