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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It actually brought your own excellent understanding , which was by nature quick
- sighted , and rendered more so by art and subtilty of logic peculiar to yourself - it
brought , I say , your very acute understanding to see nothing clearly ; and ...
It actually brought your own excellent understanding , which was by nature quick
- sighted , and rendered more so by art and subtilty of logic peculiar to yourself - it
brought , I say , your very acute understanding to see nothing clearly ; and ...
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This progress in nature is so verj gradual , that the most perfect of an inferior
species , comes very near to the most imperfect of that wbich is immediately
above it . + The eroberant and overflowing goodness of the Supreme Being ,
whose ...
This progress in nature is so verj gradual , that the most perfect of an inferior
species , comes very near to the most imperfect of that wbich is immediately
above it . + The eroberant and overflowing goodness of the Supreme Being ,
whose ...
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Who would , in such a gloomy state , remain Longer than nature craves ; when
evóry muse And every blooming pleasure waits without , To bless the wiidly
devious morning waik ? THOMSOX . SECTION II . Rural sounds , as well as rural
sights ...
Who would , in such a gloomy state , remain Longer than nature craves ; when
evóry muse And every blooming pleasure waits without , To bless the wiidly
devious morning waik ? THOMSOX . SECTION II . Rural sounds , as well as rural
sights ...
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The order of nature . See thro ' this air , this ocean , and this earth , Ali matter
quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around
, how wide ! how deep estend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God
began ...
The order of nature . See thro ' this air , this ocean , and this earth , Ali matter
quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around
, how wide ! how deep estend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God
began ...
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God never made an independent inan ; ' I would jar the concord of his general
plan , See every part of that stupendous whole , " Whose body nature is , and
God the soul ; " To one great end the general gond conspire , From matter , brute
, to ...
God never made an independent inan ; ' I would jar the concord of his general
plan , See every part of that stupendous whole , " Whose body nature is , and
God the soul ; " To one great end the general gond conspire , From matter , brute
, to ...
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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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