Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Modern. To which are Added, Some Biographical Sketches from the Earliest Ages of the World to Nearly the Present Time. Also, Extensive Scripture Lessons. ...Mahlon Day, 1827 - Anthologies |
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... render more than mere respect , Whose actions say that they respect themselves . But , loose in morals , and in manners vain , In conversation frivolous , in dress Extreme , at once rapacious and profuse ; Frequent in park with lady at ...
... render more than mere respect , Whose actions say that they respect themselves . But , loose in morals , and in manners vain , In conversation frivolous , in dress Extreme , at once rapacious and profuse ; Frequent in park with lady at ...
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... renders life Delightful . Pensive Winter cheer'd by him , Sits at the social fire , and happy hears Th ' excluded tempest idly rave along . T p . 112 . p . 117 . p . 119 . Be not too narrow , husbandmen ! but fling From the full sheaf ...
... renders life Delightful . Pensive Winter cheer'd by him , Sits at the social fire , and happy hears Th ' excluded tempest idly rave along . T p . 112 . p . 117 . p . 119 . Be not too narrow , husbandmen ! but fling From the full sheaf ...
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... rendering an acceptable service to my fellow - crea- tures . Studies , p . 1 . I have employed in my researches , all the powers of reasoning I possess ; and though my means may have been slender , I can say , with truth , that I have ...
... rendering an acceptable service to my fellow - crea- tures . Studies , p . 1 . I have employed in my researches , all the powers of reasoning I possess ; and though my means may have been slender , I can say , with truth , that I have ...
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... renders all things else per- ceptible , itself eludes our most eager re- searches . p . 27 . The proportions of the ... render love sublime , and ambi- tion beneficent . It can derive the purest gratifications even from privations the ...
... renders all things else per- ceptible , itself eludes our most eager re- searches . p . 27 . The proportions of the ... render love sublime , and ambi- tion beneficent . It can derive the purest gratifications even from privations the ...
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... rendered them , at once , the happiest , and the most respecta- ble of mankind . p . 50 . Our illumination , like our virtue , consists in descending and our force in becoming sensible of our feebleness . p . 59 . Let us farther suppose ...
... rendered them , at once , the happiest , and the most respecta- ble of mankind . p . 50 . Our illumination , like our virtue , consists in descending and our force in becoming sensible of our feebleness . p . 59 . Let us farther suppose ...
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Page 67 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 108 - Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 102 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 9 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...
Page 118 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 172 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 58 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 54 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 99 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 57 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.