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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... rising and the falling inflection of voice ; as will be seen in this example ; " Moderate exercise , and habitual temperance , strengthen the constitution . ” * As the suspending pause may be thus attended with both the rising and the ...
... rising and the falling inflection of voice ; as will be seen in this example ; " Moderate exercise , and habitual temperance , strengthen the constitution . ” * As the suspending pause may be thus attended with both the rising and the ...
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... rising , the second the falling inflection : as " Does his conduct support discipline , or destroy it ? " The rising and falling inflections must not be confounded with emphasis . Though they may often coincide , they are , in their ...
... rising , the second the falling inflection : as " Does his conduct support discipline , or destroy it ? " The rising and falling inflections must not be confounded with emphasis . Though they may often coincide , they are , in their ...
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... rise to cravings which are never satisfi ed ; nourishes a sickly , effeminate delicacy , which sours and corrupts every pleasure . SECTION VI . We have seen the husbandman scattering his 8 Part I. The English Reader .
... rise to cravings which are never satisfi ed ; nourishes a sickly , effeminate delicacy , which sours and corrupts every pleasure . SECTION VI . We have seen the husbandman scattering his 8 Part I. The English Reader .
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... rise . How many young persons have at first set out in the world with excellent dispositions of heart : generous , charitable , and humane ; kind to their friends , and amiable among all with whom they had intercourse ! And yet , how ...
... rise . How many young persons have at first set out in the world with excellent dispositions of heart : generous , charitable , and humane ; kind to their friends , and amiable among all with whom they had intercourse ! And yet , how ...
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... rising also in guilt ; till at last he completed that whole character of iniquity , which he once detested . BLAIR . SECTION III . Haman ; or , the misery of pride . AHASUERUS , who is supposed to be the prince known among the Greek ...
... rising also in guilt ; till at last he completed that whole character of iniquity , which he once detested . BLAIR . SECTION III . Haman ; or , the misery of pride . AHASUERUS , who is supposed to be the prince known among the Greek ...
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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.