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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How is it possible for human nature to endure so many repeated provocations ?
or to bear calmly with so unreasonable behaviour ! " - My brother ! if thou canst
bear with no instan . ces of unreasonable behaviour , withdraw thyself from the ...
How is it possible for human nature to endure so many repeated provocations ?
or to bear calmly with so unreasonable behaviour ! " - My brother ! if thou canst
bear with no instan . ces of unreasonable behaviour , withdraw thyself from the ...
Página 124
... it is no less than to take away from two - thirds of the legislative body of this
great kingdom , certain privileges and immuni . ties of which they have been loog
possessed . Per . haps there is no situation the human miod can be placed in that
...
... it is no less than to take away from two - thirds of the legislative body of this
great kingdom , certain privileges and immuni . ties of which they have been loog
possessed . Per . haps there is no situation the human miod can be placed in that
...
Página 132
As in the succession of the seasons , each , by the invariable laws of nature ,
affects the productions of what is next in course ; so , in human life , every period
of our age , according as it is well or ill spent , influences the happiness of that
which ...
As in the succession of the seasons , each , by the invariable laws of nature ,
affects the productions of what is next in course ; so , in human life , every period
of our age , according as it is well or ill spent , influences the happiness of that
which ...
Página 168
The vanity of human pleasures , is a topic which might be embellished with the
pomp of much d'escription . But I shall studiously avoid exaggeration , and only
point out a threefold vanity in human life , which every ia partial observer cannot
but ...
The vanity of human pleasures , is a topic which might be embellished with the
pomp of much d'escription . But I shall studiously avoid exaggeration , and only
point out a threefold vanity in human life , which every ia partial observer cannot
but ...
Página 181
... their views to no bigher objects than the succession of human contingencies ,
and the weak efforts of human ability ; who bave no protector or patron in the
heavens , to enliven their prosperity , or to warm their hearts with gratitude and
trust !
... their views to no bigher objects than the succession of human contingencies ,
and the weak efforts of human ability ; who bave no protector or patron in the
heavens , to enliven their prosperity , or to warm their hearts with gratitude and
trust !
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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.
Información bibliográfica
| 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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