The Columbian ReaderR. P. & C. Williams, and Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell. E. Goodale, printer, 1818 - 204 pages |
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... o'er the mind , " are in the end equally beneficial to society , and are among the ' many important advantages of which a rapid and ef- fectual conveyance to the world in general , and the va- rious classes of society in particular ...
... o'er the mind , " are in the end equally beneficial to society , and are among the ' many important advantages of which a rapid and ef- fectual conveyance to the world in general , and the va- rious classes of society in particular ...
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... o'er the surge , Alps frown on Alps ; or rushing hideous down , As if old Chaos was again return'd , Wide rend the deep , and shake the solid pole . Ocean itself no longer can resist The binding fury ; but , in all its rage Of tempest ...
... o'er the surge , Alps frown on Alps ; or rushing hideous down , As if old Chaos was again return'd , Wide rend the deep , and shake the solid pole . Ocean itself no longer can resist The binding fury ; but , in all its rage Of tempest ...
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... o'er his head , Renders the savage wilderness more wild . Then throng the busy shapes into his mind Of cover'd pits , unfathomably deep , A dire , descent ! beyond the power of frost , Of faithless bogs ; of precipices huge , Smooth'd ...
... o'er his head , Renders the savage wilderness more wild . Then throng the busy shapes into his mind Of cover'd pits , unfathomably deep , A dire , descent ! beyond the power of frost , Of faithless bogs ; of precipices huge , Smooth'd ...
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... o'er the mind , To breathe th ' enlivening spirit , and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast . Oh speak the joy ; ye , whom the sudden tear Surprises often , while you look around . And nothing strikes your eye but sights ...
... o'er the mind , To breathe th ' enlivening spirit , and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast . Oh speak the joy ; ye , whom the sudden tear Surprises often , while you look around . And nothing strikes your eye but sights ...
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... o'er the heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within , Are prodigal of harmony . The thrush And wood - lark , o'er the kind contending throng Superior heard , run thro ' the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns ...
... o'er the heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within , Are prodigal of harmony . The thrush And wood - lark , o'er the kind contending throng Superior heard , run thro ' the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns ...
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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