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

Williams, Orton, 1825 - 252 pages

Character of Queen Elizabeth	13

Democritus and Heraclitus	103

Cicero against Verres	115

young woman	131

Schemes of life often illusory	141

The pleasures of virtuous sensibility 143	143

On the true honour of man 13 The influence of devotion on the happiness of life	146

The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered	148

Verses in which the lines are of different length	174

Verses containing exclamations interrogations and parenthesis	175

Verses in various forms	177

Verses in which sound corresponds to signification	179

Paragraphs of greater length	180

The bear and the bees	182

The nightingale and the glowworm	183

The trials of virtue	184

On the power of custom and the uses to which it may be applied	150

The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties	152

Description ofcandour ib 18 On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on worldly pleasures	154

What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life	157

Scale of beings	158

Trust in the care of Providence recommended	161

Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity	162

Virtue when deeply rooted is not subject to the influence of fortune	164

The Speech of Fabricius a Roman ambassador to king Pyrrus	165

Character of James I king of England	166

Charles V emperor of Germany resigns his dominions and retires from the world	167

The same subject continued	170

Short and easy sentences	172

The youth and tho philosopher	186

Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest	187

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	195

Reflections on a future state from a review of winter ib 8 Adams advice to Eve to avoid temptation	196

On procrastination 197	197

That philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved 11 Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and hatred and on	199

CONTENTS	252

Titre	The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...
Auteur	Lindley Murray
Éditeur	Williams, Orton, 1825
Original provenant de	l'Université de Californie
Numérisé	5 déc. 2007
Longueur	252 pages

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