McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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4. Hunting men, and not beasts, shall be his game. 5. He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world. 6. It may moderate and restrain, but it was not designed to banish gladness from the heart of man. In the following examples, there are two sets of antitheses in the same sentence. 7. To err is human, to forgive, divine. 8. John was punished; William, rewarded. 9. Without were fightings, within were fears. 10. Business sweetens pleasure, as labor sweetens rest. 11. Justice appropriates rewards to merit, and punishments to crime. 12. On the one side, all was alacrity and courage; on the other, all was timidity and indecision. 13. The wise man is happy when he gains his own approbation; the fool, when he gains the applause of others. 14. His care was to polish the country by art, as he had protected it by arms. |
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