The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Authors. 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 ReadingN. Burrill, 1818 - 263 páginas |
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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 confusion . SECTION XIV . Moderation in our wishes recommended . BLAIR . 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 confusion . SECTION XIV . Moderation in our wishes recommended . BLAIR . THE active mind of man seldom or never rests satisfied with its present condition , how prosperous soever ...
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... enjoyment of the comforts of life . But when these wishes are not tempered by reason , they are in danger of precipitat- ing us into much extravagance and folly . Desires and wishes are the first springs of action . When they become ...
... enjoyment of the comforts of life . But when these wishes are not tempered by reason , they are in danger of precipitat- ing us into much extravagance and folly . Desires and wishes are the first springs of action . When they become ...
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... enjoyment degenerates into disgust , and pleasure is converted into pain . They are strangers to those complaints which flow from spleen , caprice , and all the fantastical distresses of a vitiated mind . While riotous indul- gence ...
... enjoyment degenerates into disgust , and pleasure is converted into pain . They are strangers to those complaints which flow from spleen , caprice , and all the fantastical distresses of a vitiated mind . While riotous indul- gence ...
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... enjoyment , his only resource is in things without . His hopes and fears all hang upon the world . He partakes in all its vicissitudes ; and is moved and shaken by every wind of fortune . This is to be , in the strictest sense , a slave ...
... enjoyment , his only resource is in things without . His hopes and fears all hang upon the world . He partakes in all its vicissitudes ; and is moved and shaken by every wind of fortune . This is to be , in the strictest sense , a slave ...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Términos y frases comunes
affections amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comfort death Democritus desire distress Divine dread earth enemies enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evils eyes father feel folly fortune friendship gentle give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human innocence Jugurtha king labours live look lord Guilford Dudley mankind Micipsa mind misery nature never numbers Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace perfect persons philosopher pleasure possess pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer tal cloud temper tempest thee things thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish youth