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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... honour of being the restorer of a better race , and the father of a new world . Such examples as these , and such honours conferred by God on them who withstood the multitude of evil doers , should often be present to our minds Let us ...
... honour of being the restorer of a better race , and the father of a new world . Such examples as these , and such honours conferred by God on them who withstood the multitude of evil doers , should often be present to our minds Let us ...
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... honour . For this reason , as none can be properly called rich who have not more than they want , there are few rich men in any of the politer nations , but among the middle sort of people , who keep their wishes within their fortunes ...
... honour . For this reason , as none can be properly called rich who have not more than they want , there are few rich men in any of the politer nations , but among the middle sort of people , who keep their wishes within their fortunes ...
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... honour and justice are my interest ; then the whole train of moral virtues are my interest ; without some portion of which , not even thieves can maintain society . But , farther still I stop not here - I pursue this so- cial interest ...
... honour and justice are my interest ; then the whole train of moral virtues are my interest ; without some portion of which , not even thieves can maintain society . But , farther still I stop not here - I pursue this so- cial interest ...
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... honour and justice , and what I owe to man , is my interest , but gratitude also , acquiescence , resignation , adoration , and all I owe to this great polity , and its Governor our common Parent . SECTION III . HARRIS . The injustice ...
... honour and justice , and what I owe to man , is my interest , but gratitude also , acquiescence , resignation , adoration , and all I owe to this great polity , and its Governor our common Parent . SECTION III . HARRIS . The injustice ...
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... honour as to render the names illustrious through succeeding ages , have been eminent for fortitude of mind . Of this we have one conspicuous example in the apostle Paul , whom it will be instructive for us to view in a remarkable oc ...
... honour as to render the names illustrious through succeeding ages , have been eminent for fortitude of mind . Of this we have one conspicuous example in the apostle Paul , whom it will be instructive for us to view in a remarkable oc ...
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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.