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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... restraint upon it is a violence done to its nature , and a tyrappy against which it
has a righ to rebel . Locke . The mind , though free , has a governor within itself ,
which may and ought to limit the exercise of its fredon . That governor is reason .
... restraint upon it is a violence done to its nature , and a tyrappy against which it
has a righ to rebel . Locke . The mind , though free , has a governor within itself ,
which may and ought to limit the exercise of its fredon . That governor is reason .
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BLAIR . SECTION VI . On the evils which flove from unrestrained passions . When
man revolted from his Maker , his pas . sions rebelled against himself ; and , from
being originally the ministers of reason , have become the tyrants of the soul .
BLAIR . SECTION VI . On the evils which flove from unrestrained passions . When
man revolted from his Maker , his pas . sions rebelled against himself ; and , from
being originally the ministers of reason , have become the tyrants of the soul .
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded , than the bent of any present
inclination : since , by the rule above - mentioned , inclination will at length come
over to reason , though we can never force reason to comply with inclination .
The voice of reason is more to be regarded , than the bent of any present
inclination : since , by the rule above - mentioned , inclination will at length come
over to reason , though we can never force reason to comply with inclination .
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The seraph spoke — ' Tis reason's part To govern and to guard the heart ; To lull
the wayward soul to rest , Whe , hopes and fears distract the breast , Reason may
calm this doubtful strife , And sieer thy bark through various life : But when the ...
The seraph spoke — ' Tis reason's part To govern and to guard the heart ; To lull
the wayward soul to rest , Whe , hopes and fears distract the breast , Reason may
calm this doubtful strife , And sieer thy bark through various life : But when the ...
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Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve , Since reason not impossibly may ineet
Some specious object by the foe suborn'd , And fall into deception unaware , Not
keepiog strictest watch , as she was warn'd . Seek not temptation then , which to ...
Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve , Since reason not impossibly may ineet
Some specious object by the foe suborn'd , And fall into deception unaware , Not
keepiog strictest watch , as she was warn'd . Seek not temptation then , which 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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