The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - Всего страниц: 264 |
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... enjoyment ? If , with all its troubles , we are in dan- ger of being too much attached to it , how entirely would it have seduced our affections , if no troubles had been mingled with its pleasures ? In seasons of distress or difficulty ...
... enjoyment ? If , with all its troubles , we are in dan- ger of being too much attached to it , how entirely would it have seduced our affections , if no troubles had been mingled with its pleasures ? In seasons of distress or difficulty ...
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... enjoyment of peace , in opposition to uproar and con- fusion . BLAIR . SECTION XIV . Moderation in our wishes recommended . THE active mind of man seldom or never rests satisfied with its present condition , how prosperous soever ...
... enjoyment of peace , in opposition to uproar and con- fusion . BLAIR . SECTION XIV . Moderation in our wishes recommended . THE active mind of man seldom or never rests satisfied with its present condition , how prosperous soever ...
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... enjoyment , his only re- source is in things without . His hopes and fears all hang upon the world . He partakes in all its vicissi- tudes ; and is moved and shaken by every wind of for- tune . This is to be , in the strictest Chap . 5 ...
... enjoyment , his only re- source is in things without . His hopes and fears all hang upon the world . He partakes in all its vicissi- tudes ; and is moved and shaken by every wind of for- tune . This is to be , in the strictest Chap . 5 ...
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... enjoyment from the casualities of the world ? Is he free who must flatter and lie to compass his ends ; who must bear with this man's caprice , and that man's scorn ; must profess friendship where he hates , and re- spect where he ...
... enjoyment from the casualities of the world ? Is he free who must flatter and lie to compass his ends ; who must bear with this man's caprice , and that man's scorn ; must profess friendship where he hates , and re- spect where he ...
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... enjoyment of individuals , overturns the order of society , and strews the path of life with so many miseries , as to render it indeed the vale of tears . All those great scenes of public calamity , which we behold with astonishment and ...
... enjoyment of individuals , overturns the order of society , and strews the path of life with so many miseries , as to render it indeed the vale of tears . All those great scenes of public calamity , which we behold with astonishment and ...
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amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessings Caius Verres character cheerful comforts dark death Democritus Descartes Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION SECTION VI sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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