The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments and to Inculate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue, with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading

B. Olds, 1852 - 252 pagine

No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy 2 Change of external condition often adverse to virtue 3 Haman or the misery of pride 4 La...	1

The cataract of Niagara in Canada North America	2

Grotto of Antiparos	3

The grotto of Antiparos continued	4

Earthquake at Catanea	5

Creation	6

Charity	7

Prosperity is redoubled to a good man	8

Indignant sentiments on national prejudice slavery c	200

Liberty and slavery contrasted ib 6 Charity A paraphrase on the 13th chap to the Corinthians	204

Picture of a good man	206

The pleasures of retirement	207

The pleasures and benefit of an improved imagination	208

The Hermit	210

The Beggars Petition	211

Unhappy close of life	213

Character of Alfred king of England	10

Character of Queen Elizabeth	11

On the slavery of vice	12

The man of integrity	13

Gentleness	14

What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life	19

Trial and execution of the earl of Strafford 2 An eminent instance of true tortitude of mind 3 The good mans comfort in affiction 2882A8 96898504...	25

Verses containing exclamations interrogations parentheses c	174

The nightingale and the glowworm	182

The trials of virtue	183

The youth and the philosopher	185

Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest	186

Religion and death	189

The vanity of wealth	191

Nothing formed in vain	192

On pride ib 4 Cruelty to brutes censured	193

A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapter of Matthew	194

The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue 19 5	197

That philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved	199

A man perishing in the snow with reflections c c	216

A morning hymn	218

Ode to Content	219

The Shepherd and the Philosopher	221

22	223

The Creators works attest his greatnam	224

Address to the Deity	225

The pursuit of happiness often illdirected	226

The fireside	229

Selfishness reproved	230

Human frailty	231

Ode to peace	232

Ode to adversity ib 14 The creation required to praise its Author	234

The universal prayer	235

Conscience	237

On an infant ib 18 The Cuckoo	241

Confidence in Divine protection	242

Hymn on a review of the Seasons	243

Ou Solitude	245

Titolo	The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments and to Inculate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue, with a Few Preliminary Observations on the ...
Autore	Lindley Murray
Editore	B. Olds, 1852
Provenienza dell'originale	la Biblioteca Pubblica di New York
Digitalizzato	19 mag 2007
Lunghezza	252 pagine

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