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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... less , because inspir'd , As thou , and thine , are apt and proud to do . p . 250 . They , first , themselves offend , who greatly please ; And travel only gives us sound repose . * * False joys , indeed , are born for want of thought ...
... less , because inspir'd , As thou , and thine , are apt and proud to do . p . 250 . They , first , themselves offend , who greatly please ; And travel only gives us sound repose . * * False joys , indeed , are born for want of thought ...
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... less familiar scenes . Then snug enclosures in the shelter'd vale , Where frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us ; happy to renounce a while , Not senseless of its charms , what still we love , That such short absence may endear ...
... less familiar scenes . Then snug enclosures in the shelter'd vale , Where frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us ; happy to renounce a while , Not senseless of its charms , what still we love , That such short absence may endear ...
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... less , to warn • The more malignant . If he spar'd not them , Tremble and be amaz'd at thine escape , Far guiltier England , lest he spare not thee ! Happy the man who sees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that chequer life ! p ...
... less , to warn • The more malignant . If he spar'd not them , Tremble and be amaz'd at thine escape , Far guiltier England , lest he spare not thee ! Happy the man who sees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that chequer life ! p ...
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... less distinguish'd than ourselves ; that thus , We may with patience , bear our mod❜rate ills , And sympathise with others , suff'ring more . Thy frame , robust and hardy , feels indeed The piercing cold , but feels it unimpair'd . The ...
... less distinguish'd than ourselves ; that thus , We may with patience , bear our mod❜rate ills , And sympathise with others , suff'ring more . Thy frame , robust and hardy , feels indeed The piercing cold , but feels it unimpair'd . The ...
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... From ill to worse , is fatal , never fails . Perhaps , though by profession ghostly pure , He too may have his vice , and sometimes prove p . 144 . outside Less dainty than becomes his grave In lucrative concerns 70 EXTRACTS , FROM.
... From ill to worse , is fatal , never fails . Perhaps , though by profession ghostly pure , He too may have his vice , and sometimes prove p . 144 . outside Less dainty than becomes his grave In lucrative concerns 70 EXTRACTS , FROM.
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animals Art thou beauty Behold blessings blest bliss charming group charms cure death delight Descartes divine dreams earth employed eternal ev'ry fear feeble feel felicity Finland fool form'd frequently Gauls gives Greenland hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart heav'n honours hope hour human immortal labour land life's live Louis XIV man's mankind means mind miserable moral nature nature's Nero never o'er once ourselves pain passions peace plant pleasure plebian poor pow'r praise pride quadruped racter reason religion render replied repose rest rich Samaritan scene scorn sentiment shade shine sigh smiles Socrates soul spleen storm sublime sublunary taste teach tears tempest thee thine thing thou thought tion toil tree treme truth Turenne vice virtue virtuous wisdom wise wish worlds unknown wretched
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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.