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 Reading |
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The unusual length of her administration , and the strong features of her
character , were able so overcone all prejudices ; and obliging her detrartors to
abate nuuch of their invectives , and her admirers somnewhat of their panegyrics
, have ...
The unusual length of her administration , and the strong features of her
character , were able so overcone all prejudices ; and obliging her detrartors to
abate nuuch of their invectives , and her admirers somnewhat of their panegyrics
, have ...
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... the most active , the most enterprising , the least scrupulous , she was able , by
her vigour , to make deep impressions on their state ; her own greatness mean
while remaining untouched and unimpaired . The wise ministers and brave men
...
... the most active , the most enterprising , the least scrupulous , she was able , by
her vigour , to make deep impressions on their state ; her own greatness mean
while remaining untouched and unimpaired . The wise ministers and brave men
...
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This I hold to be a contradiction in terms : for he can neither be a valuable servant
, nor an honest man , who gets into debt which he is neither able nor willing to
pay , till compelled by the law . If my servant , by voforseen accidents , has got
into ...
This I hold to be a contradiction in terms : for he can neither be a valuable servant
, nor an honest man , who gets into debt which he is neither able nor willing to
pay , till compelled by the law . If my servant , by voforseen accidents , has got
into ...
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To make our lives more easy to us , we are coin manded to put our trust in him ,
who is thug able to relieve and succour us ; the Divine Goodness having roade
such a reliance a duty , antwithstanding we should have been miserable , bad it ...
To make our lives more easy to us , we are coin manded to put our trust in him ,
who is thug able to relieve and succour us ; the Divine Goodness having roade
such a reliance a duty , antwithstanding we should have been miserable , bad it ...
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able to stand withoot support , he addressed himself to the audience ; and , from
a paper which he beld in his hand , in order to assist his memory , he recounted ,
with dignity , but without ostentation , all the great things which he had ...
able to stand withoot support , he addressed himself to the audience ; and , from
a paper which he beld in his hand , in order to assist his memory , he recounted ,
with dignity , but without ostentation , all the great things which he had ...
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| Título | 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 ... |
| Autor | Lindley Murray |
| Editor | John J. Williams, 1822 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 23 Mar 2007 |
| Largo | 264 páginas |
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