The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a Variety of Selected & Original Pieces, Narrative, Didactive, Argumentative, Poetical, Descriptive, Pathetic, Humourous, and Entertaining, Together with Dialogues, Speeches, Orations, Addresses, & Harangues : Calculated to Improve the Scholar in Reading and Speaking with Propriety and Elegance, and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Virtue and Religion : Designed for the Use of Schools and Families |
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... Human society resembles an arch of stone ; all would fall to the ground , if one piece did not support another . Of all the felicities attached to human nature , that of a firm and tender friendship ranks the first ; it sweetens cares ...
... Human society resembles an arch of stone ; all would fall to the ground , if one piece did not support another . Of all the felicities attached to human nature , that of a firm and tender friendship ranks the first ; it sweetens cares ...
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... humanity , a satisfaction to himself , and a benefactor to the world . He is rich without oppression , charitable without ostentation , courteous without deceit , and brave without vice . The greatest wisdom of speech is to know when ...
... humanity , a satisfaction to himself , and a benefactor to the world . He is rich without oppression , charitable without ostentation , courteous without deceit , and brave without vice . The greatest wisdom of speech is to know when ...
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... humanity of Christians ? Every wise man will consider this life only as it may conduce to the happiness of the other ; and cheerfully sacrifice the pleasures of a few years to those of eternity . Money , like manure , does no good till ...
... humanity of Christians ? Every wise man will consider this life only as it may conduce to the happiness of the other ; and cheerfully sacrifice the pleasures of a few years to those of eternity . Money , like manure , does no good till ...
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... human na- ture is prone , and which mark the degradation it has suffered , none more strikingly evince its ... humanity's shame , and man's disgrace . 2. Mr. Thomas Inkle , a young London merchant , was the third son of a wealthy citizen ...
... human na- ture is prone , and which mark the degradation it has suffered , none more strikingly evince its ... humanity's shame , and man's disgrace . 2. Mr. Thomas Inkle , a young London merchant , was the third son of a wealthy citizen ...
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... humanity depends not upon the colour of the skin . 5. The generous Indian was a woman of high birth ; and knowing that the tenderness she felt for the un- fortunate stranger would be displeasing to her parents , she felt the necessity ...
... humanity depends not upon the colour of the skin . 5. The generous Indian was a woman of high birth ; and knowing that the tenderness she felt for the un- fortunate stranger would be displeasing to her parents , she felt the necessity ...
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Page 41 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places. How are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 217 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns ; To him no high, no low, no great, no small : He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 41 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 216 - ... sight betwixt each wide extreme, the mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; of smell, the headlong lioness between, and hound sagacious on the tainted green ; of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, to that which warbles through the vernal wood; the spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 134 - ... they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Page 134 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 216 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood!
Page 41 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Page 217 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 90 - are these the principal inhabitants of Calais?" "They are," says Mauny; " they are not only the principal men of Calais, they are the principal men of France, my lord, if virtue has any share in the act of ennobling.