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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No one ougit to consider himself as insign ficant in the sigiit of bis Creator . In our
several stations , we are all sent forth to be aborers in the vineyard of our
heavenly Father . Every man has his work allotted , his talent committed to him ;
by the ...
No one ougit to consider himself as insign ficant in the sigiit of bis Creator . In our
several stations , we are all sent forth to be aborers in the vineyard of our
heavenly Father . Every man has his work allotted , his talent committed to him ;
by the ...
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First , a man should always consider how much he has more than he wants . I am
wonderfully pleased with the reply which Aristippus made to one , who condoled
with him upon the loss of a farm : Why , ” said he , “ I have three farms still , and ...
First , a man should always consider how much he has more than he wants . I am
wonderfully pleased with the reply which Aristippus made to one , who condoled
with him upon the loss of a farm : Why , ” said he , “ I have three farms still , and ...
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I would beseech this man to consider , of what small moment the provocations
which he receives , or at least imagines him . self lo receive , are really in
themselves ; but of what great moment he makes them by suffering them to
deprive him of ...
I would beseech this man to consider , of what small moment the provocations
which he receives , or at least imagines him . self lo receive , are really in
themselves ; but of what great moment he makes them by suffering them to
deprive him of ...
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We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought , of our being
overlooked by our Maker , in the in ultiplicity of his works , and the infinity of those
objects ainong which he seems to be incessantly employed , if we consider , in
the ...
We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought , of our being
overlooked by our Maker , in the in ultiplicity of his works , and the infinity of those
objects ainong which he seems to be incessantly employed , if we consider , in
the ...
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If we consider those parts of the material world , which lie the nearest to us , and
are therefore subject to our observations and inquiries , it is amazing to consider
the infinity of animals with which they are stocked . Every part of matter is ...
If we consider those parts of the material world , which lie the nearest to us , and
are therefore subject to our observations and inquiries , it is amazing to consider
the infinity of animals with which they are stocked . Every part of matter is ...
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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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