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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... virtues , an enemy , his crimes . " " The wise man is happy , when he gains his own ap- probation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determined entirely by the sense ...
... virtues , an enemy , his crimes . " " The wise man is happy , when he gains his own ap- probation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determined entirely by the sense ...
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... Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplish- ed and flourishing manhood . NOTE . In the first chapter , the Compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of construction , and in all the diversity of punc . tuation . If ...
... Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplish- ed and flourishing manhood . NOTE . In the first chapter , the Compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of construction , and in all the diversity of punc . tuation . If ...
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... ages of the world . SECTION 111 . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind and is connected with many accomplishments , and many virtues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and Chap . 1 . 3 Select Sentences .
... ages of the world . SECTION 111 . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind and is connected with many accomplishments , and many virtues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and Chap . 1 . 3 Select Sentences .
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... virtuous , the honour- able parts of your past life . The present employment of time should frequently be an object of thought . About what are we now busied What is the ultimate scope of our present pursuits and cares ? Can we justify ...
... virtuous , the honour- able parts of your past life . The present employment of time should frequently be an object of thought . About what are we now busied What is the ultimate scope of our present pursuits and cares ? Can we justify ...
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... worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world . facts plainly show , that if its vanity were less Chap . 1 . 15 Select Sentences .
... worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world . facts plainly show , that if its vanity were less Chap . 1 . 15 Select Sentences .
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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.