The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science and Literature, to Refine the Taste, and to Improve the Moral Character. Designed for the Use of SchoolsD.F. Robinson, 1828 - 276 pages |
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... appear better calculated to inspire the young with a taste for science and literature , and to instil correct moral principles , than any which have before appeared . It appears highly important that the rising generation should be ...
... appear better calculated to inspire the young with a taste for science and literature , and to instil correct moral principles , than any which have before appeared . It appears highly important that the rising generation should be ...
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... appear in a still more striking point of view . Man has dared to rebel against his Maker ; he is a depraved and ungrateful creature . The great majority of our race have banished God from their thoughts , tram- pled upon his laws ...
... appear in a still more striking point of view . Man has dared to rebel against his Maker ; he is a depraved and ungrateful creature . The great majority of our race have banished God from their thoughts , tram- pled upon his laws ...
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... appear stained with the smut of the one or the dust of the other . A writer , on the contrary , sitting in an easy chair at a polished desk , and leaning on white paper , or examining the pages of a book , is by no means obliged to be ...
... appear stained with the smut of the one or the dust of the other . A writer , on the contrary , sitting in an easy chair at a polished desk , and leaning on white paper , or examining the pages of a book , is by no means obliged to be ...
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... appears in the characters of men . Some start in life with an object in view , and are determined to attain it ; whilst others live without plan , and reach not for the prize set before them . The energies of 34 THE AMERICAN READER .
... appears in the characters of men . Some start in life with an object in view , and are determined to attain it ; whilst others live without plan , and reach not for the prize set before them . The energies of 34 THE AMERICAN READER .
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... appear dull , insipid , and unimportant ! Let our young readers inquire for themselves to what themes their thoughts most gladly and naturally recur . And happy , happy they , who , after such an in- vestigation can sincerely exclaim ...
... appear dull , insipid , and unimportant ! Let our young readers inquire for themselves to what themes their thoughts most gladly and naturally recur . And happy , happy they , who , after such an in- vestigation can sincerely exclaim ...
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Page 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 90 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 237 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 89 - 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 ? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Page 237 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer; not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Page 238 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 173 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
Page 91 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 172 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; 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 churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 49 - He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.