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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... nature , perfectly distinct . Emphasis sometimes controls those inflections . The regular application of the rising and falling inflections , confers so much beauty on expression , and is so necessary to be studied by the young reader ...
... nature , perfectly distinct . Emphasis sometimes controls those inflections . The regular application of the rising and falling inflections , confers so much beauty on expression , and is so necessary to be studied by the young reader ...
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... nature . Luxury , pride , and vanity , have frequently as much influence in corrupting the sentiments of the great , as ignorance , bigotry , and prejudice , have in mislead- ing the opinions of the multitude . Mixed as the present ...
... nature . Luxury , pride , and vanity , have frequently as much influence in corrupting the sentiments of the great , as ignorance , bigotry , and prejudice , have in mislead- ing the opinions of the multitude . Mixed as the present ...
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... nature , would generally make them prefer their own condi- as tion . We have obliged some persons : -very well ! what would we have more ? Is not the consciousness of doing good , a sufficient reward ? Do not hurt yourselves or others ...
... nature , would generally make them prefer their own condi- as tion . We have obliged some persons : -very well ! what would we have more ? Is not the consciousness of doing good , a sufficient reward ? Do not hurt yourselves or others ...
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... nature . What a magnificent spectacle presented to the view of man ! What supply contrived for his wants ! What a variety of objects set before him , to gratify his senses , to employ his understanding , to entertain his imagination ...
... nature . What a magnificent spectacle presented to the view of man ! What supply contrived for his wants ! What a variety of objects set before him , to gratify his senses , to employ his understanding , to entertain his imagination ...
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... unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the rel- ish of all its pleasures ! how weak is human nature , which , in the absence of real , is thus prone to 20 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the rel- ish of all its pleasures ! how weak is human nature , which , in the absence of real , is thus prone to 20 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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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.