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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If we would judge whether a man is really happy , it is not solely to his houses
and lands , to his equipage and his retinue , we are to look . Unless we could see
farther , and discern what joy , or what bitterress , his heart feels , we can ...
If we would judge whether a man is really happy , it is not solely to his houses
and lands , to his equipage and his retinue , we are to look . Unless we could see
farther , and discern what joy , or what bitterress , his heart feels , we can ...
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Can we look for clemency or gentleness from our Judge , when we are so
backward to show it to our owo brethrer ? Let us also accustom ourselves , to
reflect on the small moment of those things , which are the usual in . centives to
violence ...
Can we look for clemency or gentleness from our Judge , when we are so
backward to show it to our owo brethrer ? Let us also accustom ourselves , to
reflect on the small moment of those things , which are the usual in . centives to
violence ...
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To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength ; to consider that she
is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and bright . en to all eternity ;
that she will be still adding virtue to virque , and knowledge to knowledge ;
carries ...
To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength ; to consider that she
is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and bright . en to all eternity ;
that she will be still adding virtue to virque , and knowledge to knowledge ;
carries ...
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I could not ) - with a must aftectionate look , he said , Keep those tears for thyself ,
I have undone thee . --Dost thou weep for me ? " . That is cruel . What can pain
me more ? " Here his friend , too much affected , would have left him , " No , stay ...
I could not ) - with a must aftectionate look , he said , Keep those tears for thyself ,
I have undone thee . --Dost thou weep for me ? " . That is cruel . What can pain
me more ? " Here his friend , too much affected , would have left him , " No , stay ...
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Without it , learning is pedantry , and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like
weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man ... Accordingly , if we look into
particular communities and divis . iods of men , we may observe , that it is the
discreet man ...
Without it , learning is pedantry , and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like
weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man ... Accordingly , if we look into
particular communities and divis . iods of men , we may observe , that it is the
discreet man ...
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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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