National Preceptor

Jesse Olney

Woodford & Company, 1845 - 336 pàgines

Continguts

• The Affectionate Dog: 23
• The End of Perfection: 26
• The Two Bees: 27
• Heroism of a Peasant: 28
• Biographical Sketch of Major Andre: 29
• The Miraclea German Parable Mrs Sigourney 53: 30
• The Ungrateful Guest Goldsmith: 32
• Lion and Dog: 35
• Mass Magazine 62: 38
• Dishonesty Punished: 39
• Socrates and Leander: 40
• Battle of Bunkers Hill Charles Botta: 41
• The Dead Horse: 42
• Biographical Anecdotes: 43
• The Revenge of a Great Soul: 44
• Death of Prince William: 45
• The Shortness of Life: 47
• Naval Action: 48
• Damon and Pythias: 49
• Test of Goodness: 50
• The Mysterious Stranger: 51
• Earthquake in Calabria: 52
• The Starling: 53
• Alcander and Septimius: 54
• IngratitudeStory of Inkle and Yarico: 55
• Story of the Siege of Calais: 60
• Examples of Decision of Character: 61
• or the Vanity of Riches: 62
• Schemes of Life often lilusory: 63
• The Hill of Science: 64
• The Vision of Mirza: 65
• The Voyage of Life: 70
• Sterne: 77
• Goldsmith: 81
• He never smiled again: 82
• Goldsmith: 98
• The Battle of Blenheim: 99
• Sterne: 100
• Goldsmith: 102
• Lloyd: 109
• John Foster: 116
• Dr Johnson: 118
• Dr Johnson: 121
• Aikin: 123
• Spectator: 126
• The Marriners Dream: 129
• The Progress of Untruth: 136
• Dr Johnson: 137
• The Journey of a Daya picture of human life Dr Johnson: 140
• Destruction of Jerusalem 79 Address to the Sun: 148
• Destruction of Jerusalemconcluded: 152
• Ossian: 160
• U S Literary Gazette: 161
• Formation of Character 82 On Happiness of Temper J Hawes D D: 162
• Goldsmith: 164
• The Sleepers: 167
• A Good Scholar May: 168
• Select Sentences: 170
• Select Paragraphs: 173
• Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct Harris: 177
• Virtue and Piety mans highest interest Harris: 178
• The Folly of Inconsistent Expectations 89 Importance of Virtue: 180
• On the Beauties of the Psalms: 182
• Wolfe: 187
• On the Irresolution of Youth: 190
• The Hero and the Sage: 193
• The Blind Preacher: 194
• Specimen of Welch Preaching 102 Happiness 107 The Dervis and the Two Merchants 108 On the Present and Future State 113 The Just Judge 114 O...: 196
• Lacon: 199
• Lacon: 214
• Addison: 215
• Stanzas addressed to the Greeks: 272
• Price 179: 279
• Tomorrow: 284
• Shakspeare: 294
• The Inhumanity of Slavery: 305
• Addison: 315
• Fairfield: 322
• Halleck: 333

Passatges populars

Pàgina 331 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms— the day Battle's magnificently stern array!

Pàgina 159 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.

Pàgina 281 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.

Pàgina 300 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Pàgina 285 - No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...

Pàgina 253 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Pàgina 159 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.

Pàgina 298 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect...

Pàgina 281 - Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? 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?

Pàgina 187 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.

Informació bibliogràfica

• Títol: National Preceptor
• Autor: Jesse Olney
• Edició: 20
• Editor: Woodford & Company, 1845
• Original de: Universitat de Harvard
• Digitalitzat el: 28 Març 2007
• Nre. de pàgines: 336 pàgines