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 ReadingIsaac Collins and Son, 1802 - 366 páginas |
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... equal in fumptuoufnefs to that of the vizier , to which he invited all the mi- nifters of Pleasure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Lei- fure foon made him weary of himself , and he ...
... equal in fumptuoufnefs to that of the vizier , to which he invited all the mi- nifters of Pleasure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Lei- fure foon made him weary of himself , and he ...
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... equal age with king Ed- ward VI . , fhe had received all her education with him , and feemed even to poffefs a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and claffical lite- rature . She had attained a knowledge of the Ro- man ...
... equal age with king Ed- ward VI . , fhe had received all her education with him , and feemed even to poffefs a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and claffical lite- rature . She had attained a knowledge of the Ro- man ...
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... equal , and uninterrupted fteadiness ; for , befides the dif ficulties of the way , they were continually folicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of Appetites , Paffions , and Pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied ...
... equal , and uninterrupted fteadiness ; for , befides the dif ficulties of the way , they were continually folicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of Appetites , Paffions , and Pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied ...
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... equal to the torment he creates to himself , by means of the fierce and defperate paffions which he allows to rage in his foul . Thofe evil fpirits who inhabit the regions of mi- fery , are reprefented as delighting in revenge and ...
... equal to the torment he creates to himself , by means of the fierce and defperate paffions which he allows to rage in his foul . Thofe evil fpirits who inhabit the regions of mi- fery , are reprefented as delighting in revenge and ...
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... art could neither imitate nor equal . Upon being informed by him that the place was full of thefe beautiful incruftations , I ven- water . tured in once more with him , about fifty paces Chap . V. 105 Defcriptive Pieces .
... art could neither imitate nor equal . Upon being informed by him that the place was full of thefe beautiful incruftations , I ven- water . tured in once more with him , about fifty paces Chap . V. 105 Defcriptive Pieces .
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