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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... dangerous , not to say so criminal ; and desired to remain in that private station in which she was born . Overcome ... danger could be appre- hended . Warning was , therefore , given to lady Jane to prepare for death ; a doom which she ...
... dangerous , not to say so criminal ; and desired to remain in that private station in which she was born . Overcome ... danger could be appre- hended . Warning was , therefore , given to lady Jane to prepare for death ; a doom which she ...
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... danger to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly , he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is con sulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him too seek shelter in the grove ; and despised the petty cu- riosity ...
... danger to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly , he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is con sulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him too seek shelter in the grove ; and despised the petty cu- riosity ...
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... danger and difficulty give way before him . Go now , my son , to thy repose : commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence ; and when the morning calls again to toil , be- gin anew thy journey and thy life . " DR . JOHNSON . CHAPTER III ...
... danger and difficulty give way before him . Go now , my son , to thy repose : commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence ; and when the morning calls again to toil , be- gin anew thy journey and thy life . " DR . JOHNSON . CHAPTER III ...
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... danger of precipitating us into much extravagance and folly Desires and wishes are the first springs of action When they become exorbitant , the whole character is likley to be tainted It w suffer our fancy to create to itself worlds of ...
... danger of precipitating us into much extravagance and folly Desires and wishes are the first springs of action When they become exorbitant , the whole character is likley to be tainted It w suffer our fancy to create to itself worlds of ...
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... dangerous way . Finding , however , that we came to a pre- cipice which led into a spacious ampitheatre , ( if I may so call it , ) still deper than any other part , we returned , and being provided with a ladder , flambeau , and other ...
... dangerous way . Finding , however , that we came to a pre- cipice which led into a spacious ampitheatre , ( if I may so call it , ) still deper than any other part , we returned , and being provided with a ladder , flambeau , and other ...
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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.