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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... themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give variety to the modulation . Notwithstanding this diverfity of practice , there are certainly proper bound- aries , within which this emphafis must be restrained ...
... themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give variety to the modulation . Notwithstanding this diverfity of practice , there are certainly proper bound- aries , within which this emphafis must be restrained ...
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... themselves , On difinterested friendship , On the immortality of the foul , 84 85 87 # 88 92 97 8s CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES . Sect . 1 . The feafons , 101 Sect . 2 . The cataract of Niagara , in Canada , North America , 103 · Sect ...
... themselves , On difinterested friendship , On the immortality of the foul , 84 85 87 # 88 92 97 8s CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES . Sect . 1 . The feafons , 101 Sect . 2 . The cataract of Niagara , in Canada , North America , 103 · Sect ...
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... themselves ? Inftead of producing tranquillity , indolence produces a fret- ful reftlefsnefs of mind ; gives rife to cravings which are never satisfied ; nourishes a fickly effe- minate delicacy , which fours and corrupts every pleasure ...
... themselves ? Inftead of producing tranquillity , indolence produces a fret- ful reftlefsnefs of mind ; gives rife to cravings which are never satisfied ; nourishes a fickly effe- minate delicacy , which fours and corrupts every pleasure ...
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... themselves , whe- ther they would exchange their entire fituations with the perfons envied , ( I mean their minds , paf- fions , notions , as well as their perfons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I prefume the self - love common to ...
... themselves , whe- ther they would exchange their entire fituations with the perfons envied , ( I mean their minds , paf- fions , notions , as well as their perfons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I prefume the self - love common to ...
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... themselves with none but those whom they imagine to be more happy ; and complain , that upon them alone has fallen the whole foad of human forrows : Would they look with a more impartial eye on the world , they would fee themfelves ...
... themselves with none but those whom they imagine to be more happy ; and complain , that upon them alone has fallen the whole foad of human forrows : Would they look with a more impartial eye on the world , they would fee themfelves ...
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