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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Página 72
... fears had formed into a monster . Incited by this extraordinary appearance , we were induced to proceed still further , in quest of adventures in this subterranean abode . As we proceeded , new wonders offered themselves ; the spars ...
... fears had formed into a monster . Incited by this extraordinary appearance , we were induced to proceed still further , in quest of adventures in this subterranean abode . As we proceeded , new wonders offered themselves ; the spars ...
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... fear the loss of his labour . The employment detached him from the bustle and hurry of life , the din of politics , and the noise of folly . Vanity and vexation flew away for a season ; care and disquietude came not near his dwelling ...
... fear the loss of his labour . The employment detached him from the bustle and hurry of life , the din of politics , and the noise of folly . Vanity and vexation flew away for a season ; care and disquietude came not near his dwelling ...
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... - source is in things without . His hopes and fears all hang upon the world . He partakes in all its vicissi- tudes ; and is moved and shaken by every wind of for- tune . This is to be , in the strictest Chap . 5 . 89 Descriptive Pieces .
... - source is in things without . His hopes and fears all hang upon the world . He partakes in all its vicissi- tudes ; and is moved and shaken by every wind of for- tune . This is to be , in the strictest Chap . 5 . 89 Descriptive Pieces .
Página 84
... fear from the world , he can be easy in every state . One who possesses within him- self such an establishment of mind , is truly free . But shall I call that man free , who has nothing that is his own , no property assured ; whose very ...
... fear from the world , he can be easy in every state . One who possesses within him- self such an establishment of mind , is truly free . But shall I call that man free , who has nothing that is his own , no property assured ; whose very ...
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... fear.- It gives up no important truth from flattery . It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind , but it necessarily requires a manly spirit , and a fixed prin . ciple , in order to give it any real value . Upon this solid ...
... fear.- It gives up no important truth from flattery . It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind , but it necessarily requires a manly spirit , and a fixed prin . ciple , in order to give it any real value . Upon this solid ...
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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.