Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers. Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary : the Words are ... Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles of John WalkerS. Newton, 1824 - 287 páginas |
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... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
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... truth form the basis ƒ of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in disguise . Change and alteration from the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise ...
... truth form the basis ƒ of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in disguise . Change and alteration from the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise ...
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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have established our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . m When we ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have established our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . m When we ...
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... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructor will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those latent k suggestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructor will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those latent k suggestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
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... than use . When Aristotle ƒ was asked , " What a man could gain by tel , ling a falsehood , " he replied , " not to be credited when he speaks the truth . " L'Estrange , g in his Fables , tells us that Chap . I. 33 SELECT SENTENCES , & c .
... than use . When Aristotle ƒ was asked , " What a man could gain by tel , ling a falsehood , " he replied , " not to be credited when he speaks the truth . " L'Estrange , g in his Fables , tells us that Chap . I. 33 SELECT SENTENCES , & c .
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Términos y frases comunes
Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing breast Caius Verres cheerful dark death delight Democritus distress divine dread earth enjoyment errours eternal ev'ry evil fantastick father favour fear feel folly fortune Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human Jugurtha kind king labour live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature nature's never noble Numidia o'er pain Pamphylia passions pause peace person pleasure possession pow'r praise pride prince proper publick Pythias religion render rest rich rise Roman scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily Sidon smiles sorrow soul sound spirit spring superiour sweet tears temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth