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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... honour- able parts of your past life . The present employment of time should frequently be an object of thought . About what are we now busied What is the ultimate scope of our present pursuits and cares ? Can we justify them to ...
... honour- able parts of your past life . The present employment of time should frequently be an object of thought . About what are we now busied What is the ultimate scope of our present pursuits and cares ? Can we justify them to ...
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... could not be found . Happy is the man that findeth wisdom . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand , riches and honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her 12 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... could not be found . Happy is the man that findeth wisdom . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand , riches and honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her 12 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO . Change of external condition often adverse to virtue . In the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent , and ...
... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO . Change of external condition often adverse to virtue . In the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent , and ...
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... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the ser- vants of the king prostrated themselves before him In the midst of this ...
... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the ser- vants of the king prostrated themselves before him In the midst of this ...
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... honour , swells into a momentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric which our disturbed ...
... honour , swells into a momentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric which our disturbed ...
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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.