The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and PoetryJ. D. Bemis and Company, 1822 - 272 páginas |
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... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
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... less degrees of importance of the words upon which it opc- rates and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it : but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on ...
... less degrees of importance of the words upon which it opc- rates and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it : but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on ...
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... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a sit- uation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his prin- ciples , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ...
... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a sit- uation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his prin- ciples , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ...
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... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
Página 38
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more com- plete ...
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more com- plete ...
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Términos y frases comunes
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father fear feel folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honor hope human indulge inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labors live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfect person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit stancy suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth