The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 sider |
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Side xiii
... wise man is happy , when he gains his own ap- probation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determined entirely by the sense of the pas- sage , and always made alike ...
... wise man is happy , when he gains his own ap- probation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determined entirely by the sense of the pas- sage , and always made alike ...
Side 1
... wise man , and build his house on the rock , and not on the sand , should con- template human life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your ...
... wise man , and build his house on the rock , and not on the sand , should con- template human life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your ...
Side 2
... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opin- on of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed float- ing on ...
... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opin- on of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed float- ing on ...
Side 12
... wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend : but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebuke is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him : He that is slow to ...
... wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend : but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebuke is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him : He that is slow to ...
Side 16
... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give ...
... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give ...
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Side 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.