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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... ourselves by attending to the manner in which Nature teaches us to speak , when engaged in a real and earnest discourse with oth . ers The following sentence exemplifies the suspending and the closing pauses : " Hope , the balm of life ...
... ourselves by attending to the manner in which Nature teaches us to speak , when engaged in a real and earnest discourse with oth . ers The following sentence exemplifies the suspending and the closing pauses : " Hope , the balm of life ...
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... ourselves secure from the dangers which spring from our pas- sions . Every age , and every station , they beset ; from youth to gray hairs , and from the peasant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to criminal ...
... ourselves secure from the dangers which spring from our pas- sions . Every age , and every station , they beset ; from youth to gray hairs , and from the peasant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to criminal ...
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... ourselves , we ought to be exact and severe . Let him that desires to see others happy , make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed ; and re- member , that every moment of delay , takes away some- thing from the value of his ...
... ourselves , we ought to be exact and severe . Let him that desires to see others happy , make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed ; and re- member , that every moment of delay , takes away some- thing from the value of his ...
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... ourselves ? Are they likely to produce any thing that will survive the moment , and bring forth some fruit for furity ? Is it not strange , ( says an ingenious writer , ) that some per- sons should be so delicate as not to bear a ...
... ourselves ? Are they likely to produce any thing that will survive the moment , and bring forth some fruit for furity ? Is it not strange , ( says an ingenious writer , ) that some per- sons should be so delicate as not to bear a ...
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... ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the instruments of the trouble which we endure . These sharpen the darts , which adversity ...
... ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the instruments of the trouble which we endure . These sharpen the darts , which adversity ...
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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.