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 páginas |
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... enjoyed ; and re- member , that every moment of delay , takes away some- thing from the value of his benefaction . And let him who proposes his own happiness reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and 6 Part 1 ...
... enjoyed ; and re- member , that every moment of delay , takes away some- thing from the value of his benefaction . And let him who proposes his own happiness reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and 6 Part 1 ...
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... enjoy :) yet , if it mitigates the evils which necessarily belong to our state , it may justly be said to give " rest to them who labour and are heavy laden . " What a smiling aspect does the love of parents and children , of brothers ...
... enjoy :) yet , if it mitigates the evils which necessarily belong to our state , it may justly be said to give " rest to them who labour and are heavy laden . " What a smiling aspect does the love of parents and children , of brothers ...
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... enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty proportion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians ...
... enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty proportion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians ...
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... enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced ...
... enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced ...
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... enjoyed . What can mortals hope or imagine , which the master of this palace has not obtained ? The dishes of luxury cover his table ; the voice of harmony lulls him in his bowers ; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java , and ...
... enjoyed . What can mortals hope or imagine , which the master of this palace has not obtained ? The dishes of luxury cover his table ; the voice of harmony lulls him in his bowers ; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java , and ...
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amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessings Caius Verres character cheerful comforts dark death Democritus Descartes Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION SECTION VI sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Página 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.