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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... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION 111 . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind and is connected with many ...
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION 111 . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind and is connected with many ...
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... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world . facts plainly ...
... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world . facts plainly ...
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... reflections naturally arise . How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion cre- ates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the rel- ish of all its pleasures ...
... reflections naturally arise . How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion cre- ates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the rel- ish of all its pleasures ...
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... reflecting , the air grew blacker , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation . He now resolved to do what yet remained in his power , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and to try to find some issue where the wood night ...
... reflecting , the air grew blacker , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation . He now resolved to do what yet remained in his power , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and to try to find some issue where the wood night ...
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... reflection on natural equality and mutual offences , be insufficient to prompt humanity , let us at least remember what we are in the sight of our Crea- tor . Have we none of that forbearance to give one another , which we all so ...
... reflection on natural equality and mutual offences , be insufficient to prompt humanity , let us at least remember what we are in the sight of our Crea- tor . Have we none of that forbearance to give one another , which we all so ...
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