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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... painful remembrance of his folly , he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is con sulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him too seek shelter in the grove ; and despised the petty cu- riosity that led him on from ...
... painful remembrance of his folly , he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is con sulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him too seek shelter in the grove ; and despised the petty cu- riosity that led him on from ...
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... painful , but attend- ed with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it , for the natural gratification which it affords ...
... painful , but attend- ed with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it , for the natural gratification which it affords ...
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... painful sensations of an irritated and embittered mind . So numerous and great are the evils arising from a suspicious disposition , that of the two extremes , it is more eligible to expose ourselves to occasional disad- vantage from ...
... painful sensations of an irritated and embittered mind . So numerous and great are the evils arising from a suspicious disposition , that of the two extremes , it is more eligible to expose ourselves to occasional disad- vantage from ...
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... pain of self - denial is confined to virtue . He who follows the world , as much as he who follows Christ , must " take up his cross ; " and to him assuredly , it will prove a more oppressive burden . Vice allows all our passions to ...
... pain of self - denial is confined to virtue . He who follows the world , as much as he who follows Christ , must " take up his cross ; " and to him assuredly , it will prove a more oppressive burden . Vice allows all our passions to ...
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... pain , or pleasure , according to the nature of those moral appearances that present them- selves to observation ... painful sensations , which may sometimes be produced by the one , as well as by the other , are equally insufficient ...
... pain , or pleasure , according to the nature of those moral appearances that present them- selves to observation ... painful sensations , which may sometimes be produced by the one , as well as by the other , are equally insufficient ...
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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.