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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... true and lasting delights ; when a re- trospect of their past lives presents nothing to view but one wide tract of uncultivated ground ; a soul distemper- ed with spleen , remorse , and insensibility of each rational satisfaction ...
... true and lasting delights ; when a re- trospect of their past lives presents nothing to view but one wide tract of uncultivated ground ; a soul distemper- ed with spleen , remorse , and insensibility of each rational satisfaction ...
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... true worth of character ; —and his life is a blessing to him- self , to his family , to society and to the world . Aim then , my friends , to attain this character , -aim at virtue , and moral excellence . This is the first , the in ...
... true worth of character ; —and his life is a blessing to him- self , to his family , to society and to the world . Aim then , my friends , to attain this character , -aim at virtue , and moral excellence . This is the first , the in ...
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... true religion , the love and the fear of God implanted in the mind , is the most powerfully transforming cause , that can be brought to act on the character of man . The truths it unfolds , the motives it urges , the interests it ...
... true religion , the love and the fear of God implanted in the mind , is the most powerfully transforming cause , that can be brought to act on the character of man . The truths it unfolds , the motives it urges , the interests it ...
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... true religion stands on firm and elevated ground ; his heart is fixed , trusting in the Lord ; and he feels within him the workings of a principle , which , like the hand of God , will not let him go ; but amidst all the assaults of the ...
... true religion stands on firm and elevated ground ; his heart is fixed , trusting in the Lord ; and he feels within him the workings of a principle , which , like the hand of God , will not let him go ; but amidst all the assaults of the ...
Side 39
... true of idle thoughts . They are the first means he employs to ensnare us : of them we are not much afraid , and therefore are easily led on to the next step , which is short and easy indeed . By vain thoughts , we may understand those ...
... true of idle thoughts . They are the first means he employs to ensnare us : of them we are not much afraid , and therefore are easily led on to the next step , which is short and easy indeed . By vain thoughts , we may understand those ...
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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.