The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...Lincoln and Edmands, 1815 - 264 sidor |
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... a private life , with much more fatisfaction than the felt when royalty was tender- ed to her . Queen Mary , who appears to have been incapable of CHAP . 2 . 43 Narrative Pieces . throne of England, in oppofition to the rights of ...
... a private life , with much more fatisfaction than the felt when royalty was tender- ed to her . Queen Mary , who appears to have been incapable of CHAP . 2 . 43 Narrative Pieces . throne of England, in oppofition to the rights of ...
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... appears to have been incapable of generofity or clemency , determined to remove every per-- fon , from whom the leaft danger could be apprehended . Warning was , therefore , given to lady Jane to prepare for death ; a doom which fhe had ...
... appears to have been incapable of generofity or clemency , determined to remove every per-- fon , from whom the leaft danger could be apprehended . Warning was , therefore , given to lady Jane to prepare for death ; a doom which fhe had ...
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... appear in differ- ent kinds of actions , according as they are more or lefs rectified and fwayed by reason . When one hears of ne- groes , who , upon the death of their mafters , or upon changing their fervice , hang themselves upon the ...
... appear in differ- ent kinds of actions , according as they are more or lefs rectified and fwayed by reason . When one hears of ne- groes , who , upon the death of their mafters , or upon changing their fervice , hang themselves upon the ...
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... appears in thefe poor wretches on many occafions , be raised to , were it rightly cultivated ? And what colour of ... appearing diftinctly in all his limbs and features ; fome- times , we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy ...
... appears in thefe poor wretches on many occafions , be raised to , were it rightly cultivated ? And what colour of ... appearing diftinctly in all his limbs and features ; fome- times , we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy ...
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... appear more beautiful , when their leaves are a little contracted and folded up , than when they are full blown , and display themselves , without any referve , to the view . : We are fome of us very fond of knowledge , and apt to value ...
... appear more beautiful , when their leaves are a little contracted and folded up , than when they are full blown , and display themselves , without any referve , to the view . : We are fome of us very fond of knowledge , and apt to value ...
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Sida 229 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Sida 241 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd 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...
Sida 208 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Sida 211 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Sida 190 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Sida 255 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Sida 226 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Sida 176 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
Sida 225 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Sida 130 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come...