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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... wisdom in cunning , patience in sullenness and despair . Men's passions operate variously , and appear in different kinds of actions , according as they are more or less rectified and swayed by reason . When one hears of negroes , who ...
... wisdom in cunning , patience in sullenness and despair . Men's passions operate variously , and appear in different kinds of actions , according as they are more or less rectified and swayed by reason . When one hears of negroes , who ...
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... wisdom . Ir is a sure indication of good sense , to be diffident of it . We then , and not till then , are growing wise , when we begin to discern how weak and unwise we are . An absolute perfection of understanding , is impossible ; he ...
... wisdom . Ir is a sure indication of good sense , to be diffident of it . We then , and not till then , are growing wise , when we begin to discern how weak and unwise we are . An absolute perfection of understanding , is impossible ; he ...
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... wisdom , which , like our Saviour , cometh from above , will , through his merits , bring us thither . All our other studies and pur- suits , however different , ought to be subservient to , and centre in , this grand point , the ...
... wisdom , which , like our Saviour , cometh from above , will , through his merits , bring us thither . All our other studies and pur- suits , however different , ought to be subservient to , and centre in , this grand point , the ...
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... wisdom of Agur s peti- tion : " Remove far from me vanity and lies Give me neither poverty nor riches . Feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee ; and say , who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor , and steal ; and ...
... wisdom of Agur s peti- tion : " Remove far from me vanity and lies Give me neither poverty nor riches . Feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee ; and say , who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor , and steal ; and ...
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... wisdom , humanity.and virtue , the earth would no longer be desolated by cruelty ; and human societies would live in order , harmony , and peace . In those scenes of mischief and violence which fill the world , let man behold , with ...
... wisdom , humanity.and virtue , the earth would no longer be desolated by cruelty ; and human societies would live in order , harmony , and peace . In those scenes of mischief and violence which fill the world , let man behold , with ...
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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.