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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 páginas |
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... course raise expectation , if the importance of the matter be not fully answerable to such expectation , they occasion disappoint- ment and disgust . But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses , is to mark the divisions of ...
... course raise expectation , if the importance of the matter be not fully answerable to such expectation , they occasion disappoint- ment and disgust . But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses , is to mark the divisions of ...
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... course of time , all that had been predicted came to pass . Hazael as- cended the throne , and ambition took possession of his heart . " He smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . " He oppressed them during all the days of ...
... course of time , all that had been predicted came to pass . Hazael as- cended the throne , and ambition took possession of his heart . " He smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . " He oppressed them during all the days of ...
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... course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees , and watered a large region with innumera- ble circumvolutions . In these amusements , the hours passed away unaccounted ; his deviations had perplexed his memory , and he knew not ...
... course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees , and watered a large region with innumera- ble circumvolutions . In these amusements , the hours passed away unaccounted ; his deviations had perplexed his memory , and he knew not ...
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... course cannot be foreseen ; and he seldom fails of suffering most from their poisonous effect , who first allowed them to flow . SECTION V. BLAIR . A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor . As a suspicious spirit is ...
... course cannot be foreseen ; and he seldom fails of suffering most from their poisonous effect , who first allowed them to flow . SECTION V. BLAIR . A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor . As a suspicious spirit is ...
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... course , is far greater than what attends a course of well- doing . If we are weary of the labours of virtue , we may be assured , that the world , whenever we try the exchange , will lay upon us a much heavier load It is the outside ...
... course , is far greater than what attends a course of well- doing . If we are weary of the labours of virtue , we may be assured , that the world , whenever we try the exchange , will lay upon us a much heavier load It is the outside ...
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amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessings Caius Verres character cheerful comforts dark death Democritus Descartes Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION SECTION VI sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Página 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.