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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... beauty , innocence , and noble birth , changed their orders , and gave directions that she should be beheaded within the verge of the Tower . She saw her husband led to execution , and having giv en him from the window some token of her ...
... beauty , innocence , and noble birth , changed their orders , and gave directions that she should be beheaded within the verge of the Tower . She saw her husband led to execution , and having giv en him from the window some token of her ...
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... beauty ; who have resigned the pleasures of that smiling season ; who begin to decline into the vale of years , impaired in their health , depressed in their for- tunes , stript of their friends , their children , and per- haps still ...
... beauty ; who have resigned the pleasures of that smiling season ; who begin to decline into the vale of years , impaired in their health , depressed in their for- tunes , stript of their friends , their children , and per- haps still ...
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... beauty of the face of nature , all the enjoyments of domestic society , all the gaie- ty and cheerfulness of an easy mind , are as open to him as to those of the highest rank . The splendour of retinue , the sound of titles , the ...
... beauty of the face of nature , all the enjoyments of domestic society , all the gaie- ty and cheerfulness of an easy mind , are as open to him as to those of the highest rank . The splendour of retinue , the sound of titles , the ...
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... beauty , riches , grandeur , nay , royalty itself , would , many a time , have been gladly exchanged by the possessors , for that more quiet and humble station , with which you are now dissatisfied . With all that is splendid and ...
... beauty , riches , grandeur , nay , royalty itself , would , many a time , have been gladly exchanged by the possessors , for that more quiet and humble station , with which you are now dissatisfied . With all that is splendid and ...
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... beauty of its sparry incrustations . This celebrated ca. vern was first explored by one Magni , an Italian traveller , about one hundred years ago , at Antiparos , an inconsiderable island of the Archipelago . Having been informed ...
... beauty of its sparry incrustations . This celebrated ca. vern was first explored by one Magni , an Italian traveller , about one hundred years ago , at Antiparos , an inconsiderable island of the Archipelago . Having been informed ...
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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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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.