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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The desires and passions of a vicious man , having once ob . tained unlimited
sway , trample him under their feet . They make him feel that he is subject to
various , contradictory , and imperious masters , who often pull him different ways
.
The desires and passions of a vicious man , having once ob . tained unlimited
sway , trample him under their feet . They make him feel that he is subject to
various , contradictory , and imperious masters , who often pull him different ways
.
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Tbose passions which it seems to indulge , it only feeds with imperfect
gratifications , and thereby strengtheus them for preying , in the end , on their
unhappy victims . It is a great mistake to imagine , that the pain of self - denial is
confined to ...
Tbose passions which it seems to indulge , it only feeds with imperfect
gratifications , and thereby strengtheus them for preying , in the end , on their
unhappy victims . It is a great mistake to imagine , that the pain of self - denial is
confined to ...
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It is the reason of a man , in opposition to the passion of a child . ... their active
labours ; which warm the breast of the young , animate the industry of the mid .
dle aged , and often keep alive the passions of the old , until the very close of life .
It is the reason of a man , in opposition to the passion of a child . ... their active
labours ; which warm the breast of the young , animate the industry of the mid .
dle aged , and often keep alive the passions of the old , until the very close of life .
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They are , for the most paré , coupected with some one bad passion ; and they
always nourish a giddy and frivolous turn of ... that through the present weakness
of the under : standing , our passions are often directed towards improper objects
...
They are , for the most paré , coupected with some one bad passion ; and they
always nourish a giddy and frivolous turn of ... that through the present weakness
of the under : standing , our passions are often directed towards improper objects
...
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To obtain , if possible , such command of passion , is one of the highest
attainmeots of the rational pa . ture . ... scenes of public calamity , which we
behold with astonishmcat and horror , have originated from the source of violeot
passions .
To obtain , if possible , such command of passion , is one of the highest
attainmeots of the rational pa . ture . ... scenes of public calamity , which we
behold with astonishmcat and horror , have originated from the source of violeot
passions .
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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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