The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science and Literature, to Refine the Taste, and to Improve the Moral Character. Designed for the Use of SchoolsD.F. Robinson, 1828 - 276 sider |
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... thing to learn . No one was ever born a Newton or an Edwards . It is patient , vigorous and long continued application that makes the great mind . All must begin with the simplest elements of knowledge , and advance from step to step in ...
... thing to learn . No one was ever born a Newton or an Edwards . It is patient , vigorous and long continued application that makes the great mind . All must begin with the simplest elements of knowledge , and advance from step to step in ...
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... things should be kept steadily in view : -first , that the mind itself is to be formed ; is to be gradually expanded ... thing , he has got to make himself ; or in other words , to rise by personal application . Let him always try his ...
... things should be kept steadily in view : -first , that the mind itself is to be formed ; is to be gradually expanded ... thing , he has got to make himself ; or in other words , to rise by personal application . Let him always try his ...
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... thing in the most engaging light ; and when men are in high good humour with themselves , they are apt to be so with all around ; the face of nature brightens up , and the sun shines with a more agreeable lustre . But when old age has ...
... thing in the most engaging light ; and when men are in high good humour with themselves , they are apt to be so with all around ; the face of nature brightens up , and the sun shines with a more agreeable lustre . But when old age has ...
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... thing to expect . They may have their little day of sun- shine and pleasure ; then they will vanish and be forgot- ten as if they had never been . This is unworthy the character of a rational being . Man was made for a no- bler end than ...
... thing to expect . They may have their little day of sun- shine and pleasure ; then they will vanish and be forgot- ten as if they had never been . This is unworthy the character of a rational being . Man was made for a no- bler end than ...
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... things ; and never , without a due consideration of them , can you be qualified for the duties of life , or sustain the responsibilities so soon to come upon you as members of society . Another requisite for meeting the claims of ...
... things ; and never , without a due consideration of them , can you be qualified for the duties of life , or sustain the responsibilities so soon to come upon you as members of society . Another requisite for meeting the claims of ...
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Side 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Side 89 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Side 169 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Side 89 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Side 89 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Side 90 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending...
Side 198 - Publish it from the pulpit: religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it or fall with it. Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Side 171 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Side 195 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Side 237 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.