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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... praise should be preserved under proper sub . ordination to the principle of duty . In itself , it is a useful motive to action ; but when allowed to extend its influence too far , it corrupts the whole character ; and produces guilt ...
... praise should be preserved under proper sub . ordination to the principle of duty . In itself , it is a useful motive to action ; but when allowed to extend its influence too far , it corrupts the whole character ; and produces guilt ...
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... praise and veneration . I have long sought content , and have not found it , I will from this moment endeavour to be rich . ” Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his chamber , for six months , to deliberate how he should ...
... praise and veneration . I have long sought content , and have not found it , I will from this moment endeavour to be rich . ” Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his chamber , for six months , to deliberate how he should ...
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... praise was tried , and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted . Or- togrul heard his flatterers without delight , because he found himself unable to believe them . His own heart told him its frailties ; his own understanding re ...
... praise was tried , and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted . Or- togrul heard his flatterers without delight , because he found himself unable to believe them . His own heart told him its frailties ; his own understanding re ...
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... praises ; and appear not to have been surpassed by any person who ever filled a throne : a conduct less rigorous , less imperious , more sincere , more indulgent to her people . would have been requi- site to form a perfect character ...
... praises ; and appear not to have been surpassed by any person who ever filled a throne : a conduct less rigorous , less imperious , more sincere , more indulgent to her people . would have been requi- site to form a perfect character ...
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... praise of her success ; but instead of lessening the applause due to her , they make great addition to it . They owed , all of them , their advancement to her choice ; they were supported by her constancy ; and , with all their ability ...
... praise of her success ; but instead of lessening the applause due to her , they make great addition to it . They owed , all of them , their advancement to her choice ; they were supported by her constancy ; and , with all their ability ...
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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.