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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... turn aside from the world , and to commune with himself in retirement , will , some- times at least , hear the truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those ...
... turn aside from the world , and to commune with himself in retirement , will , some- times at least , hear the truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those ...
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... turning day ! With what a lustre does it gild even the smallest habitation where this placid intercourse dwells ! Where such scenes of heart - felt satisfaction succeed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent ...
... turning day ! With what a lustre does it gild even the smallest habitation where this placid intercourse dwells ! Where such scenes of heart - felt satisfaction succeed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent ...
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... turn thine eye on the oppo . site mountain . " Ortogrul looked , and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks , roaring with the noise of E thunder , and scattering its foam on the impending woods Chap . 2 . 25 Narrative Pieces .
... turn thine eye on the oppo . site mountain . " Ortogrul looked , and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks , roaring with the noise of E thunder , and scattering its foam on the impending woods Chap . 2 . 25 Narrative Pieces .
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... turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , pas- sions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with , they became less and less able to re- sist and though they often returned to the path , the asperities of the ...
... turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , pas- sions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with , they became less and less able to re- sist and though they often returned to the path , the asperities of the ...
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... turn their feet out of the path , but contented herself with retarding their pro- gress ; and the purpose she could not force them to abandon , she persuaded them to delay . Her touch had a power like that of the torpedo , which ...
... turn their feet out of the path , but contented herself with retarding their pro- gress ; and the purpose she could not force them to abandon , she persuaded them to delay . Her touch had a power like that of the torpedo , which ...
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