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 |
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... man's tender tie On earthly bliss ; it breaks at ev'ry breeze . p . 19 . Here teems with revolutions ev'ry hour ; And rarely for the better ; or the best . * * Each moment has its sickle , emulous * Of time's enormous scythe , whose ...
... man's tender tie On earthly bliss ; it breaks at ev'ry breeze . p . 19 . Here teems with revolutions ev'ry hour ; And rarely for the better ; or the best . * * Each moment has its sickle , emulous * Of time's enormous scythe , whose ...
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... Man's caution often into danger turns , And his guard falling , crushes him to death . * The smoothest course of nature has its pains , And truest friends , through error , wound our rest ; * Nor are foes wanting to the best on earth ...
... Man's caution often into danger turns , And his guard falling , crushes him to death . * The smoothest course of nature has its pains , And truest friends , through error , wound our rest ; * Nor are foes wanting to the best on earth ...
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... man's presumption on to - morrow's dawn ? Where is to - morrow ? in another world . For numbers this is certain ; the reverse Is sure to none ; and yet on this perhaps , This peradventure , infamous for lies , As on a rock of adamant we ...
... man's presumption on to - morrow's dawn ? Where is to - morrow ? in another world . For numbers this is certain ; the reverse Is sure to none ; and yet on this perhaps , This peradventure , infamous for lies , As on a rock of adamant we ...
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... man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty , and reforms his plan ; At fifty , chides his infamous delay , Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves ; and re - resolves : then dies the same ...
... man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty , and reforms his plan ; At fifty , chides his infamous delay , Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves ; and re - resolves : then dies the same ...
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... man without account ? What years are squand'red ! wisdom's debt unpaid ! Our wealth in days all due to that discharge . Haste , haste , he lies in wait , he's at the door . p . 31 . For what calls thy disease , Lorenzo ? not For ...
... man without account ? What years are squand'red ! wisdom's debt unpaid ! Our wealth in days all due to that discharge . Haste , haste , he lies in wait , he's at the door . p . 31 . For what calls thy disease , Lorenzo ? not For ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.