Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Modern. To which are Added, Some Biographical Sketches from the Earliest Ages of the World to Nearly the Present Time. Also, Extensive Scripture Lessons. ...Mahlon Day, 1827 |
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... shade . " my Its silent language such : No needst thou call Thy Magi , to decypher what it ineans . But such our gravitation to the wrong , So prone our hearts to whisper what we wish , ' Tis later with the wise , than he's aware ; A ...
... shade . " my Its silent language such : No needst thou call Thy Magi , to decypher what it ineans . But such our gravitation to the wrong , So prone our hearts to whisper what we wish , ' Tis later with the wise , than he's aware ; A ...
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... shade again . Were as wealthy as a south - sea dream , Wishing is an expedient to be poor . Wishing , that constant hectic of a fool ; Caught at a court ; purg'd off by purer air , And simpler diet ; gifts of rural life ! posterity ...
... shade again . Were as wealthy as a south - sea dream , Wishing is an expedient to be poor . Wishing , that constant hectic of a fool ; Caught at a court ; purg'd off by purer air , And simpler diet ; gifts of rural life ! posterity ...
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... shade . p . 108 . What are we ? How unequal ! Now we soar , And now we sink ; to be the same , transcends Our present prowess . p . 109 . Grief ! more proficients in thy school are made , Than genius , or proud learning e'er could boast ...
... shade . p . 108 . What are we ? How unequal ! Now we soar , And now we sink ; to be the same , transcends Our present prowess . p . 109 . Grief ! more proficients in thy school are made , Than genius , or proud learning e'er could boast ...
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... p . 224 . How frail , men , things ! How momentary both ! Fantastic chase of shadows hunting shades ! The gay , the busy , equal though unlike ; Equal in wisdom , differently wise ! Through flow'ry meadows YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS . 35.
... p . 224 . How frail , men , things ! How momentary both ! Fantastic chase of shadows hunting shades ! The gay , the busy , equal though unlike ; Equal in wisdom , differently wise ! Through flow'ry meadows YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS . 35.
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... shade , Where rumour of oppression and deceit , Of unsuccessful or successful war , Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd , My soul is sick , with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage , with which earth is fill'd . There is no ...
... shade , Where rumour of oppression and deceit , Of unsuccessful or successful war , Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd , My soul is sick , with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage , with which earth is fill'd . There is no ...
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Стр. 67 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Стр. 108 - Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Стр. 102 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Стр. 9 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...
Стр. 118 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Стр. 172 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Стр. 58 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Стр. 54 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Стр. 99 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Стр. 57 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.