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 ReadingEdward Little & Company, 1811 - Всего страниц: 254 |
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... paffions and emotions . We fhall , however , felect one , which is extracted from the beautiful lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan , and which will , in fome degree , elucidate what has been faid on this fubject . " The beauty ...
... paffions and emotions . We fhall , however , felect one , which is extracted from the beautiful lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan , and which will , in fome degree , elucidate what has been faid on this fubject . " The beauty ...
Стр. xvi
... paffions and emotions . In read- ing , let all your tones of expreffion be borrowed from those of common fpeech , but , in fome degree , more faintly charac- terized . Let thofe tones which fignify any difagreeable paf- fion of the mind ...
... paffions and emotions . In read- ing , let all your tones of expreffion be borrowed from those of common fpeech , but , in fome degree , more faintly charac- terized . Let thofe tones which fignify any difagreeable paf- fion of the mind ...
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... paffions , can tell how far thefe may carry him . Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be attained , when the bufinefs of the world is tempered with thoughtful and ferious retreat . He who would act like a wife man , and build ...
... paffions , can tell how far thefe may carry him . Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be attained , when the bufinefs of the world is tempered with thoughtful and ferious retreat . He who would act like a wife man , and build ...
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... paffions of the bad , fruftrate the effect of every advantage which the world con- fers on them . The external ... paffion , and by guilt . No ftation is fo high , no power fo great , no character fo unblemished , as to exempt men from ...
... paffions of the bad , fruftrate the effect of every advantage which the world con- fers on them . The external ... paffion , and by guilt . No ftation is fo high , no power fo great , no character fo unblemished , as to exempt men from ...
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... paffions . Every age , and every ftation they befet ; from youth to gray hairs , and from the peafant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to criminal deeds . Yet thofe riches , when obtained , may very ...
... paffions . Every age , and every ftation they befet ; from youth to gray hairs , and from the peafant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to criminal deeds . Yet thofe riches , when obtained , may very ...
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