The Columbian ReaderR. P. & C. Williams, and Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell. E. Goodale, printer, 1818 - 204 pages |
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... Cicero remarks with equal truth , though with less acuteness , that no man can speak well on those topics which he has not studied . To this end , it is evidently necessary that the reader should himself understand and feel what he ...
... Cicero remarks with equal truth , though with less acuteness , that no man can speak well on those topics which he has not studied . To this end , it is evidently necessary that the reader should himself understand and feel what he ...
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... Cicero full of resource , he was not less remarkable for the copiousness and completeness of his argument , that left little for cavil , and nothing for doubt . Some men take their strongest argument as a weapon , and use no other ; but ...
... Cicero full of resource , he was not less remarkable for the copiousness and completeness of his argument , that left little for cavil , and nothing for doubt . Some men take their strongest argument as a weapon , and use no other ; but ...
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... Cicero may be believed , a great orator never rises ; or else that he was prompt- ed to it by his own sound judgment and his intimate knowledge of the human heart . I have seen the skeletons of some of his orations . The periods , and ...
... Cicero may be believed , a great orator never rises ; or else that he was prompt- ed to it by his own sound judgment and his intimate knowledge of the human heart . I have seen the skeletons of some of his orations . The periods , and ...
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... Cicero . CHARACTER OF LORD CLIVE . Ah ! the tale is told ! The scene is ended , and the curtain falls ! As an emblem of the vanity of all earth- ly pomp , let his monument be a globe ; but be that globe a bubble ; let his effigy be a ...
... Cicero . CHARACTER OF LORD CLIVE . Ah ! the tale is told ! The scene is ended , and the curtain falls ! As an emblem of the vanity of all earth- ly pomp , let his monument be a globe ; but be that globe a bubble ; let his effigy be a ...
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... Cicero . I confess I anticipate with joy the reward of those , whose whole consequence , power and authority , exist only for the benefit of mankind ; and I carry my mind to all the people , and all the names and descriptions , that ...
... Cicero . I confess I anticipate with joy the reward of those , whose whole consequence , power and authority , exist only for the benefit of mankind ; and I carry my mind to all the people , and all the names and descriptions , that ...
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Page 53 - of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert-the
Page 53 - which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Page ii - title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit; " The Columbian Reader, comprising a new and various selection of elegant extracts in prose and poetry, for the use of schools in the United States, to which is prefixed an Introduction on the Arts of Reading and Speaking
Page ii - In conformity to the act ofthe Congress ofthe United States, entitled " An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and also to an act, entitled
Page 167 - peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold. Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes ; shuts* up sense; And. o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse,
Page xix - thing. When this opposition is expressed in words, it forms an antithesis, the opposite parts of which are always emphatical. 'thus in the following couplet from Pope : Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill . Appear in writing, or in judging ill. The words writing and judging are opposed to
Page 200 - No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer evening's latest sigh,. That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head* And aching heart beneath the soil, To slumber in that dreamless bed. From all my toil. For misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild j
Page 203 - The soul, of origin divine, God's glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine,^ A star of day ! "■ The sun is but a spark of fire,: A transient meteor in the sky ; The soul, immortal as its sire, SHALL