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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Página 26
... wish for sudden affluence , that may pour upon thee like the mountain torrent ; or for a slow and gradual increase , resembling the rill gliding from the well ? " " Let me be quickly rich , " said Ortogrul ; " let the golden stream be ...
... wish for sudden affluence , that may pour upon thee like the mountain torrent ; or for a slow and gradual increase , resembling the rill gliding from the well ? " " Let me be quickly rich , " said Ortogrul ; " let the golden stream be ...
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... wishes for me , I am already present . Science may raise thee to emi- nence ; but I alone can guide thee to felicity ! " . While Virtue was thus speaking , I stretched out my arms towards her , with a vehemence which broke my slumber ...
... wishes for me , I am already present . Science may raise thee to emi- nence ; but I alone can guide thee to felicity ! " . While Virtue was thus speaking , I stretched out my arms towards her , with a vehemence which broke my slumber ...
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... wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue . Happy are they , my son , who shall learn from thy example , not to despair ; but shall re- member , that , though the day is past , and their strength is ...
... wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue . Happy are they , my son , who shall learn from thy example , not to despair ; but shall re- member , that , though the day is past , and their strength is ...
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... wishes within their fortunes , and have more wealth than they know how to enjoy . Persons of a higher rank live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are perpetually wanting , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of ...
... wishes within their fortunes , and have more wealth than they know how to enjoy . Persons of a higher rank live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are perpetually wanting , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of ...
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... punishing ourselves on their account . Patience , in this exercise of it , cannot be too much studied by all who wish their life to flow in a smooth stream . It is the reason of a man , in opposition Chap . 3 . 51 Didactic Pieces .
... punishing ourselves on their account . Patience , in this exercise of it , cannot be too much studied by all who wish their life to flow in a smooth stream . It is the reason of a man , in opposition Chap . 3 . 51 Didactic Pieces .
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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.