The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect Improve Their Language and Sentiments : and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingDescribes the wonders of light and optics, exploring such developments as lasers, fiber optics, and holography. |
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Select Sentences and Paragraphs CHAPTER II . Narrative Pieces . Soct . 1 . No
rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy . . . . . . . 2 . Change of
external condition often adverse to virtue . . . . . . . . 3 . Haman ; or the misery of
pride .
Select Sentences and Paragraphs CHAPTER II . Narrative Pieces . Soct . 1 . No
rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy . . . . . . . 2 . Change of
external condition often adverse to virtue . . . . . . . . 3 . Haman ; or the misery of
pride .
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Mixed as the present state is , reason and religion pronounce , that generally , if
not always , there is more happiness than misery , more pleasure than pain , in
the condition of man . 15 . Society , when formed , requires distinctions of
property ...
Mixed as the present state is , reason and religion pronounce , that generally , if
not always , there is more happiness than misery , more pleasure than pain , in
the condition of man . 15 . Society , when formed , requires distinctions of
property ...
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WHENCE arises the misery of this present world ? It is not - owing to our cloudy
atmosphere , our changing seasons , and inclement skies . It is not owing to the
debility of our bodies , or to the unequal distribution of the goods of fortune .
WHENCE arises the misery of this present world ? It is not - owing to our cloudy
atmosphere , our changing seasons , and inclement skies . It is not owing to the
debility of our bodies , or to the unequal distribution of the goods of fortune .
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A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor . 1 . As a suspicious
spirit is the source of many crimes and calamities in the world , so it is the spring
of certain misery to the person who indulges it . His friends will be few ; and small
...
A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor . 1 . As a suspicious
spirit is the source of many crimes and calamities in the world , so it is the spring
of certain misery to the person who indulges it . His friends will be few ; and small
...
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... but their course cannot be foreseen ; and he seldom fails of suffering most from
their poisonous effect , who first allowed them to flow . BLAIR . SECTION V . A
suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor . 1 . As a suspicious spirit
...
... but their course cannot be foreseen ; and he seldom fails of suffering most from
their poisonous effect , who first allowed them to flow . BLAIR . SECTION V . A
suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor . 1 . As a suspicious spirit
...
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| Título | The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect Improve Their Language and Sentiments : and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the ... Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood |
| Autor | Lindley Murray |
| Compilado por | Lindley Murray |
| Editor | R. Pew, 1830 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 14 Mar 2008 |
| Largo | 252 páginas |
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