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 59
... of the infinite host of heaven , by which the times and seasons ever uniform- ly pass on ? Were this order once confounded , I could not probably survive a moment ; so absolutely do depend Ghap . 4 . 59 Argumentative Pieces .
... of the infinite host of heaven , by which the times and seasons ever uniform- ly pass on ? Were this order once confounded , I could not probably survive a moment ; so absolutely do depend Ghap . 4 . 59 Argumentative Pieces .
Página 61
... Heaven . For such visitations of trial , many good and wise reasons can be assigned , which the present subject leads the not to discuss . But though those unavoidable calamities make a part , yet they make not the chief part , of the ...
... Heaven . For such visitations of trial , many good and wise reasons can be assigned , which the present subject leads the not to discuss . But though those unavoidable calamities make a part , yet they make not the chief part , of the ...
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... heaven ? Has he duly valued the blessing of health , and always observed the rules of vir- tue and sobriety ? Has he been moderate in his life , and temperate in all his pleasures ? If now he is on- ly paying the price of his former ...
... heaven ? Has he duly valued the blessing of health , and always observed the rules of vir- tue and sobriety ? Has he been moderate in his life , and temperate in all his pleasures ? If now he is on- ly paying the price of his former ...
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... Heaven has confered on the sons of men . But I should be glad to know , what the real value of this boasted exemption from care , which they promise their dis iples , justly amounts to ? an exemption flattering to self - love , I ...
... Heaven has confered on the sons of men . But I should be glad to know , what the real value of this boasted exemption from care , which they promise their dis iples , justly amounts to ? an exemption flattering to self - love , I ...
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... heaven has left me . " - Upon this he paused ; drop- ped a tear ; looked upon his children ; and proceeded . " What I forfeit for myself is a trifle : that my in- discretions should reach my posterity , wounds me to the heart . Pardon ...
... heaven has left me . " - Upon this he paused ; drop- ped a tear ; looked upon his children ; and proceeded . " What I forfeit for myself is a trifle : that my in- discretions should reach my posterity , wounds me to the heart . Pardon ...
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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.