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 ; 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

E. & E. Hosford, 1821 - 264 頁

內容

• CHAPTER: iv
• Select Sentences and Paragraphs: 17
• On the imperfection of that happiness wbicb rests solely: 18
• 23 Oa Solitude: 23
• No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind bappy: 32
• The importance of a good educatiou: 47
• Comforts of religion: 53
• Oo contentment: 59
• Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty 03: 65
• Tie seasons: 81
• Prosperity is redoubled to a good man: 88
• Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford: 97
• Josepb: 108
• Cicero against Verres: 117
• Earthquake at Calabria in the year 1638: 133
• on worldly pleasures: 162
• What are ibe real and solid enjoyments of human life: 165
• Scale of beings: 167
• Trust in the care of Providence recommended: 169
• Piety and gratitude eoliven prosperity: 171
• Virtue wben deeply rooted is not subject to the influ ence of fortune 24 The speech of Fabricus Romap ambassador to king: 173
• by the offer of a great sum of money: 174
• Character of James 1 king of England: 175
• Charles V Emperor of Germany resigns his dominions and retires from the world: 176
• The same subject continued: 179
• Short and easy sentences: 182
• Verses in which the lines are of different length: 184
• Verses containing exclamations ioterrogations and pa rentbeses: 185
• Verses in various forms: 187
• Verses in wbich sound corresponds to siggification: 189
• Paragraphs of greater length: 191
• The bears and the bees: 193
• The nightingale and the glow worm: 194
• The trials of virtue ib 4 The youth and the philosopher: 196
• Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest: 197
• Religion and death: 200
• The vanity of wealth: 202
• Notbing formed in valo jb 3 On pride: 203
• Cruelty to brutes cepsured: 204
• A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chap of Matthew: 205
• The death of a good mao a strong ioceptive to virtue: 206
• Reflections on a future state from a review of winter ib 8 Adams advice to Eve to avoid temptation: 207
• On procrastination: 208
• ihat philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved: 209
• ladignant sentiments on national prejudice and hatred aud on slavery: 210

熱門章節

第 223 頁 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

第 235 頁 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

第 229 頁 - 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.

第 192 頁 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...

第 224 頁 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.

第 182 頁 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.

第 28 頁 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

第 28 頁 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

第 197 頁 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

第 78 頁 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.

書目資訊

• 書名: 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 ; Improve Their Language and Sentiments ; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary ...
• 作者: Lindley Murray
• 出版者: E. & E. Hosford, 1821
• 來源：: 紐約市立圖書館
• 已數位化: 2006年9月21日
• 頁數: 264 頁