The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...Lincoln and Edmands, 1815 - 264 sidor |
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... reason , " faid the emperor , " that I grieve . ” On the contrary , religion bears a more tender regard to human nature . It prescribes to every miferable man the means of bettering his condition ; nay , it shows him , that bearing his ...
... reason , " faid the emperor , " that I grieve . ” On the contrary , religion bears a more tender regard to human nature . It prescribes to every miferable man the means of bettering his condition ; nay , it shows him , that bearing his ...
Sida 72
... reason , they are in danger of precipitating us into much extravagance and folly . De- fires and wishes are the first springs of action . When they become exorbitant , the whole character is likely to be tainted . If we fuffer our fancy ...
... reason , they are in danger of precipitating us into much extravagance and folly . De- fires and wishes are the first springs of action . When they become exorbitant , the whole character is likely to be tainted . If we fuffer our fancy ...
Sida 120
... reason , like other governors , has a pol . icy more dependent upon uncertain caprice , than upon any fixed laws . And if that reason , which rules my mind or yours , has happened to set up a favourite notion , it not only fubmits ...
... reason , like other governors , has a pol . icy more dependent upon uncertain caprice , than upon any fixed laws . And if that reason , which rules my mind or yours , has happened to set up a favourite notion , it not only fubmits ...
Sida 140
... reason . I did not fearch long here , till I found the boat in which I had landed ; and my compan- ions alfo , whofe terrors were even greater than mine . Our meeting was not of that kind , where every one is defirous of telling his own ...
... reason . I did not fearch long here , till I found the boat in which I had landed ; and my compan- ions alfo , whofe terrors were even greater than mine . Our meeting was not of that kind , where every one is defirous of telling his own ...
Sida 179
... reason to complain of fortune ; fhe fupplies me with all that nature requires ; and if I am without fuperfluities , I am alfo free from the defire of them . With these , I confefs I should be more able to fuccour the neceffitous , the ...
... reason to complain of fortune ; fhe fupplies me with all that nature requires ; and if I am without fuperfluities , I am alfo free from the defire of them . With these , I confefs I should be more able to fuccour the neceffitous , the ...
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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...