The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers ...Stereotyped, printed and published by H. and E. Phinney, 1829 - 252 páginas |
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... vice , as well as to animate them with sent ! - ments of piety and goodness . Such impressions deeply engraven on their minds , and connected with all their attainments , could scarcely fail of attend ing them through life , and of ...
... vice , as well as to animate them with sent ! - ments of piety and goodness . Such impressions deeply engraven on their minds , and connected with all their attainments , could scarcely fail of attend ing them through life , and of ...
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... reading without attention to the subject ; and establish a habit of readily discovering the mean . ing , force , and beauty of what they peruse . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE . CHAPTER 1 . SELECT 12 INTRODUCTION . On the slavery of vice,
... reading without attention to the subject ; and establish a habit of readily discovering the mean . ing , force , and beauty of what they peruse . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE . CHAPTER 1 . SELECT 12 INTRODUCTION . On the slavery of vice,
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... Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius , employed in little things , appears ( to use the simile of Longinus ) like the sun in his evening de- clination : he remits his ...
... Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius , employed in little things , appears ( to use the simile of Longinus ) like the sun in his evening de- clination : he remits his ...
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... vice . The irregular gratifica- tions into which it occasionally seduces him , appear under the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged , in the be- ginning , with scrupulousness and reserve . But , by longer practice , these ...
... vice . The irregular gratifica- tions into which it occasionally seduces him , appear under the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged , in the be- ginning , with scrupulousness and reserve . But , by longer practice , these ...
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... vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ! how weak is human nature , which , in the absence ...
... vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ! how weak is human nature , which , in the absence ...
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