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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... pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learned the proper seats of these ac- cents , it is an important rule , to give every word just the same accent in reading , as in common discourse . Many persons err in this ...
... pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learned the proper seats of these ac- cents , it is an important rule , to give every word just the same accent in reading , as in common discourse . Many persons err in this ...
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... pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty ...
... pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty ...
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... passing the love of women . " Sir Philip Sidney , at the batile near Zutphen , was wound . ed by a musket - ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a half , to the camp ; and being faint with the loss ...
... passing the love of women . " Sir Philip Sidney , at the batile near Zutphen , was wound . ed by a musket - ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a half , to the camp ; and being faint with the loss ...
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... pass- ing at that moment throughout the world ! multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and the children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can hardly procure ...
... pass- ing at that moment throughout the world ! multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and the children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can hardly procure ...
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... 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 king Jehoahaz ; and , from what is left on record of ...
... 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 king Jehoahaz ; and , from what is left on record of ...
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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.