The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best Writers

Holbrook & Fessenden, 1827 - 264

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Select Sentences and Paragraphs Paren	17

No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy	28

The hill of science	35

86	37

On forgiveness	41

The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue	47

Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct	56

The seasons	64

Liberty and slavery contrasted	166

Charity A paraphrase on the 13th chapter to the First Corinthians 7 Picture of a good	168

The pleasures of retirement	169

The pleasure and benefit of an improved and welldirected imagination	170

CHAPTER V	171

The beggars petition	172

Unhappy close of life	173

Elegy to pity 5 Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk during his solitary aborde in the Lsland of Juan Fernandez	174

Character of Queen Elizabeth	72

The good mans comfort in affliction	78

Democritus and Heraclitus	84

Cicero against Verres	91

Page	99

Earthquake at Calabria in the year 1638	103

The same subject continued	137

ib 151 152 154 156 ib 157 ib 158 159 ib 160 161 162 163 164 ib 165 ib 166 167 168 169 170	148

The bear and the bees 2 The nightingale and the glowworm 3 The trials of virtue	149

The youth and the philosopher	151

Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest	152

Religion and death	154

CHAPTER III	156

4 Cruelty to brutes censured	157

A paraphrase on the latter part of the 8th chapter of Matthew 6 The neath of a good man a strong incentive to virtue 7 Reflections on a future state fr...	159

Adams advice to Eve to avoid temptation	160

On procrastination	161

That philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved	162

Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and hatred and on slavery	163

CHAPTER IV	164

The rose 4 Care of birds for their young	165

Gratitude	175

A man perishing in the snow from whence reflections are raised on the miseries of life	177

A morning hymn	178

CHAPTER VI	179

The shepherd and the philosopher	180

The road to happiness open to all	182

The goodness of Providence 5 The Creators works attest his greatness	183

Address to the Deity	184

The pursuit of happiness often ili directed 8 The fireside	186

Providence vindicated in the present state of	187

Selfishness reproved	188

1 Human frailty	189

Ode to Peace 13 Ode to Adversity	190

The Creation required to praise its Author	191

The universal prayer 16 Conscience	193

On an infant	194

The cuckoo 19 Day A pasterat in three parts 20 The order of Nature	197

Confidence in Divine Protection 22 Hymn on a review of the seasons	199

On solitude 171 172 173 174 ib 175 177 178 179 180 182 183 ib 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 ib 191 193 194 il 195 ib 197 199	201

An eminent instance of true fortitude of mind	2

Tytuł	The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best Writers
Autorzy	Lindley Murray, Rensselaer Bentley
Wydawca	Holbrook & Fessenden, 1827
W formie oryginalnej	Biblioteka Publiczna w Nowym Jorku
W formie cyfrowej	4 Mar 2009
Liczba stron	264

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