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 Reading

Lindley Murray

C. Spaulding, 1821 - 253 páginas

Índice

• SELECT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS: 1
• No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind: 17
• The journey of a day a picture of human life: 30
• Motives to the practice of gentleness: 37
• The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples: 43
• DESCRIPTIVE PIECES: 68
• On charity: 74
• On the slavery of vice: 80
• Trial and execution of the earl of Strafford: 86
• Altamont: 94
• Locke and Bayle: 101
• CHAP VIII: 107
• The apostle Pauls noble defence before Festus: 113
• An address to young persons: 119
• Earthquake at Calibria in the year 1638: 126
• On the government of our thoughts: 131
• On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions: 133
• On the proper state of our temper with respect to one another: 134
• Excellence of the Christian religion: 136
• Reflections occasioned by a review of the bless ings pronounced by Christ on his disciples in his sermon on the mount: 137
• Schemes of life often illusory: 138
• The pleasures of virtuous sensibility: 141
• On the true honor of man: 142
• The influence of devotion on the happiness oflife: 144
• The planetary and terrestrial worlds compar atively considered: 146
• On the power of custom and the uses to which it may be applied: 148
• The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties: 150
• Description of candor ib Sect XVIII On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on worldly pleasures: 152
• What are the real and solid enjoyments of hu man life: 155
• Scale of beings: 157
• Trust in the care of Providence recommended: 160
• Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity: 162
• Virtue when deeply rooted is not subject to the influence of fortune: 164
• The speech of Fabricus a Roman Ambas sador to king Pyrrhus who attempted to bribe him to his interests by the offer of a great sum of money: 165
• Character of James I king of England: 166
• Charles V emperor of Germany resigns his dominions and retires from the world: 167
• The same subject continued: 170
• PART II: 173
• Verses in which the lines are of different length: 175
• Verses containing exclamations interrogations and parentheses: 177
• Verses in various forms: 179
• Verses in which sound corresponds to signification: 181
• Paragraphs of greater length: 183
• The bears and the bees: 185
• Religion and death: 193
• The death of a good man a strong incentive: 199
• DESCRIPTIVE PIECES: 205
• The pleasures of retirement: 212
• Elegy to pity: 218
• A man perishing in the snow from whence re flections are raised on the miseries of life: 222
• A morning hymn: 224
• CHAP VI: 225
• The shepherd and the philosopher: 227
• The road to happiness open to all men: 229
• The goodness of Providence: 230
• The Creators works attest his greatness zb Sect VI Address to the Deity: 231
• The pursuit of happiness often illdirected: 233
• The fireside: 234
• Providence vindicated in the present state of man: 236
• Selfishness reproved: 237
• Human frailty: 238
• Ode to peace: 239
• Ode to adversity: 240
• The creation required to praise its Author: 241
• The universal prayer: 243
• Conscience: 245
• On an infant ib Sect XVIII The cuckoo: 246
• The order of nature: 249
• Hymn composed durir sickness: 251
• Hymn on a review of the seasons: 252

Passagens conhecidas

Página 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.

Página 249 - Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.

Página 190 - ... sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was...

Página 196 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Página 230 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.

Página 205 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

Página 113 - And now I stand, and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers; unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come; for which hope's sake, King Agrippa I am accused of the Jews.

Página 225 - Join voices, all ye living Souls; ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk » The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.

Página 250 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart...

Página 244 - Through this day's life or death ! This day, be bread and peace my lot All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let Thy will be done.

Informação bibliográfica

• Título: 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 ...
• Autor: Lindley Murray
• Edição: 3
• Editora: C. Spaulding, 1821
• Original de: Universidade de Harvard
• Digitalizado: 25 Mar 2008
• Número de páginas: 253 páginas