English Exercises, Adapted to Murray's English Grammar |
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Page 97 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Page 91 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
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Page 17 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 17 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
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Page 91 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 91 - Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul, And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the general frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Page 86 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Exercises, Adapted to Murray's English Grammar |
| Author | Lindley Murray |
| Edition | 19 |
| Publisher | for Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 22, 2007 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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