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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In order to forni sound opinions concerning characters and actions , two things
are especially requisite , information and ... This supposed motive they conclude
to be the ruling princijile ; and pronounce at once concerning the whole character
.
In order to forni sound opinions concerning characters and actions , two things
are especially requisite , information and ... This supposed motive they conclude
to be the ruling princijile ; and pronounce at once concerning the whole character
.
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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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He is not guided merely by affections , which may sometimes give the color of
virtue to a loose and upstable character . The upright man is guided by a fixed
principle of miod , which determines bim to esteem nothing but what is honorable
...
He is not guided merely by affections , which may sometimes give the color of
virtue to a loose and upstable character . The upright man is guided by a fixed
principle of miod , which determines bim to esteem nothing but what is honorable
...
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No human character exhibited in the records of Scripture , is more remarkable
and instructive than that of the patriarch Joseph . He is one whom we behold iried
in all the vicisitudes of fortune : from the condition of a slave , rising to be ruler of ...
No human character exhibited in the records of Scripture , is more remarkable
and instructive than that of the patriarch Joseph . He is one whom we behold iried
in all the vicisitudes of fortune : from the condition of a slave , rising to be ruler of ...
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SECTION XXV . Character of James I. king of England , NO PRINCE , so little
enterprising and so inoffensive , was ever so much exposed to the opposite
extremes of calumoy and flattery , of satire and panegyric . And the factions which
began ...
SECTION XXV . Character of James I. king of England , NO PRINCE , so little
enterprising and so inoffensive , was ever so much exposed to the opposite
extremes of calumoy and flattery , of satire and panegyric . And the factions which
began ...
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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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