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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... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and af 、 fability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the be- haviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful far remov- ed from that ...
... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and af 、 fability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the be- haviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful far remov- ed from that ...
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... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , to one who ...
... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , to one who ...
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... hours so lingering ? Who are so of ten devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedi ent , which can help them to get rid of themselves ! Instead of producing tranquility , indolence produces a fretful restless- ness of mind ...
... hours so lingering ? Who are so of ten devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedi ent , which can help them to get rid of themselves ! Instead of producing tranquility , indolence produces a fretful restless- ness of mind ...
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... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirmed by the reports , which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirmed by the reports , which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
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... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country in search of some one that night teach him to grow rich ; and as he stood on the top of a hill ...
... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country in search of some one that night teach him to grow rich ; and as he stood on the top of a hill ...
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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.