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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... possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disappointing , is in constant search of care , solici tude , remorse , and confusion . " " To advise the ignorant , relieve the needy ...
... possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disappointing , is in constant search of care , solici tude , remorse , and confusion . " " To advise the ignorant , relieve the needy ...
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... possession is to be chiefly estimat- ed , by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell ...
... possession is to be chiefly estimat- ed , by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell ...
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... possession , as violent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour of every object . By the storms which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it ...
... possession , as violent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour of every object . By the storms which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it ...
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... possession of our mind , we may date from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion which generally affords the first introduction to vice . The irregular gratifications into which it ...
... possession of our mind , we may date from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion which generally affords the first introduction to vice . The irregular gratifications into which it ...
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... possessions can make the guilty mind happy . DIONYSIUS , the tyrant of Sicily , was far from being happy , though he possessed great riches , and all the pleasures which wealth and power could procure . Damocles , one of his flatterers ...
... possessions can make the guilty mind happy . DIONYSIUS , the tyrant of Sicily , was far from being happy , though he possessed great riches , and all the pleasures which wealth and power could procure . Damocles , one of his flatterers ...
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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.