The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect Improve Their Language and Sentiments : and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading

Lindley Murray

R. Pew, 1830 - Electronic book - 204 pages

Describes the wonders of light and optics, exploring such developments as lasers, fiber optics, and holography.

Contents

• PIECES IN PROSE: 17
• CHAPTER II: 28
• No rank or possessions can make the guilly mind happy 2 Change of external condition often adverse to virtue 3 Haman or the misery of pride: 30
• Lady Jane Grey: 32
• Ortogrul or the vanity of riches: 33
• The hill of science: 35
• The journey of a day a picture of human life: 37
• CHAPTER IIT Didactick Pieces: 27
• The importance of a good education: 30
• On gratitude 3 On forgiveness: 31
• Motives to the practice of gentleness: 42
• A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor: 43
• Comforts of religion 7 Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom: 44
• On the importance of order in the distribution of our time: 45
• The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples: 46
• The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue: 47
• On contentment: 48
• Rank and riches afford no ground for envy: 50
• Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty: 51
• Moderation in our wishes recommended: 52
• Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity the source of consolation to good: 54
• CHAPTER IV: 56
• Virtue and piety mans highest interest: 57
• The injustice of an uncharitable spirit 4 The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on themselves: 58
• On disinterested friendship: 60
• On the immortality of the soul: 62
• CHAPTER V: 64
• The cataract of Niagara in Canada North America: 65
• The grotto of Antiparos: 66
• The grotto of Antiparos continued: 67
• Earthquake at Catanea 6 Creation: 68
• Charity 8 Prosperity is redoubled to a good: 69
• On the beauties of the Psalms: 70
• Character of Alfred king of England: 71
• Charactor of Queen Elizabeth: 72
• The slavery of vice: 73
• The of integrity 14 Gentleness: 74
• CHAPTER VI: 76
• The clemency and amiable character of the patriarch joseph: 81
• Altamont: 82
• CHAPTER VIL Dialogues Sect 1 Democritus and Heraclitus: 84
• Dionysius Pythias and Damon: 86
• Locke and Bayle: 87
• CHAPTER VIII: 91
• Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senato imploring their protectiva against Jugurtha: 94
• An address to young persons: 100
• CHAPTER IX: 103
• Letter from Pliny to Germinius: 105
• Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus on the death of an amiable young woman: 106
• On discretion: 107
• On the government of our thoughts: 109
• On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions: 110
• On the proper state of our temper with respect to one another: 111
• Excellence of the Holy Scriptures 9 Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ on his disciples in his sermon on the m...: 113
• Schemes of life often illusory: 114
• The pleasures of virtuous sensibility: 116
• On the true honour of: 117
• The influence of devotion on the happiness of life: 118
• The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered: 119
• On the power of custom and the uses to which it inay be applied 16 The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties: 122
• Description of candour: 123
• On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on worldly pleasures: 124
• What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life: 126
• Scale of beings: 127
• Trust in the care of Providence rocommended: 129
• Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity: 130
• Virtue when deeply rooted is not subject to the influence of fortune: 132
• The speech of Fabricius a Roman ambassador to king Pyrrhus: 133
• Character of James I king of England 26 Charles V emperor of Germany resigns his dominions and retires from the world: 134
• The same subject continued 106 107 109 110 111 113 114 116 117 118 119 121 122 123 124 126 127 129 130 132 133 134: 137
• PART II: 139
• Verses in which the lines are of different length: 140
• Verses containing exclamations intorrogations and parentheses 4 Verses in various forms: 143
• Verses in which sound corresponds to signification: 145
• Paragraphs of greater length 139 140 142 143 145: 146
• The bear and the bees: 148
• Didactick Pieces: 156
• Indignant sentiments on natonal prejudices and hatred and on slavery: 164
• The hermit: 171
• Ode to content: 179
• On solitude: 201

Bibliographic information

• Title: The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect Improve Their Language and Sentiments : and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the ...; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
• Author: Lindley Murray
• Compiled by: Lindley Murray
• Edition: 21
• Publisher: R. Pew, 1830
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Mar 14, 2008
• Length: 204 pages