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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... passions , there is a strong and intimate connexion . When any one of them is adopted into our family , it seldom quits until it has fathered upon us all its kindred . Charity , like the sun , brightens every object on which it shines ...
... passions , there is a strong and intimate connexion . When any one of them is adopted into our family , it seldom quits until it has fathered upon us all its kindred . Charity , like the sun , brightens every object on which it shines ...
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... passions , but which corrupts his prin- ciples , disorders his temper , and , finally , oversets his virtue ? What misery does the vicious man secretly endure ! Ad- versity how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver , in com- parison ...
... passions , but which corrupts his prin- ciples , disorders his temper , and , finally , oversets his virtue ? What misery does the vicious man secretly endure ! Ad- versity how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver , in com- parison ...
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... passions ; the day of ruin , -- let them take heed , and beware ! -the day , of irrecoverable run , begins to draw nigh . Fortune is squandered ; health is bro ken ; friends are offended , affronted , estranged ; aged pa- rents ...
... passions ; the day of ruin , -- let them take heed , and beware ! -the day , of irrecoverable run , begins to draw nigh . Fortune is squandered ; health is bro ken ; friends are offended , affronted , estranged ; aged pa- rents ...
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... passions , notions , well as their persoas , fortunes , and dignities , ] — I presume the self - love common to human nature , would generally make them prefer their own condi- as tion . We have obliged some persons : -very well ! what ...
... passions , notions , well as their persoas , fortunes , and dignities , ] — I presume the self - love common to human nature , would generally make them prefer their own condi- as tion . We have obliged some persons : -very well ! what ...
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... passion for military glory , he used to answer : " That he more desired the preservation of one subject , than the destruction of a thousand enemies . " Men are too often ingenious in making themselves misera ble Chap . I. 11 Select ...
... passion for military glory , he used to answer : " That he more desired the preservation of one subject , than the destruction of a thousand enemies . " Men are too often ingenious in making themselves misera ble Chap . I. 11 Select ...
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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.