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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... wise man is happy , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superiour Emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determin- ed entirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ...
... wise man is happy , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superiour Emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determin- ed entirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ...
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... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , e are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed floating on ...
... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , e are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed floating on ...
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... wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an en- emy are deceitful . Open rebuke a is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him . He that is slow ...
... wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an en- emy are deceitful . Open rebuke a is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him . He that is slow ...
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... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to main ain his post : to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse t to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity u and virtue ; and never to ...
... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to main ain his post : to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse t to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity u and virtue ; and never to ...
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... wise ; but what does wis- dom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretch- edness , who lives with his own ...
... wise ; but what does wis- dom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretch- edness , who lives with his own ...
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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