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 - 264 pages |
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Page 34
... perfection , which , without such helps , are never able to make their appearance . If my reader will give me leave to change the allu- sion so soon upon him , I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education ...
... perfection , which , without such helps , are never able to make their appearance . If my reader will give me leave to change the allu- sion so soon upon him , I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education ...
Page 35
... perfection . For to return to our statute in the block of marble , we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped , sometimes rough - hewn , and but just sketched into a human figure : sometimes we see the man appear- ing distinctly in ...
... perfection . For to return to our statute in the block of marble , we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped , sometimes rough - hewn , and but just sketched into a human figure : sometimes we see the man appear- ing distinctly in ...
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... perfection of understanding , is impossible ; he makes the nearest approaches to it , who has the sense to discern , and the humility to acknowledge , its imperfections . Modesty always sits gracefully up- on youth ; it covers a ...
... perfection of understanding , is impossible ; he makes the nearest approaches to it , who has the sense to discern , and the humility to acknowledge , its imperfections . Modesty always sits gracefully up- on youth ; it covers a ...
Page 68
... perfection , without a possibility of ever arriving at it : which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others , who have written on this subject , though it seems to me to carry a very great weight with ...
... perfection , without a possibility of ever arriving at it : which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others , who have written on this subject , though it seems to me to carry a very great weight with ...
Page 69
... perfection of its nature , without ever arriving at a period in it . To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength ; to consider that she is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and bright- en to all eternity ...
... perfection of its nature , without ever arriving at a period in it . To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength ; to consider that she is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and bright- en to all eternity ...
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