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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... shine , and discovers every ornamental cloud , spot and vein , that runs through the body of it . Education , after the same manner , when it works upon a noble mind , draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection , which ...
... shine , and discovers every ornamental cloud , spot and vein , that runs through the body of it . Education , after the same manner , when it works upon a noble mind , draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection , which ...
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... shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and bright- en to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to vir- tue , and knowledge to knowledge ; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition , which is ...
... shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and bright- en to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to vir- tue , and knowledge to knowledge ; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition , which is ...
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... shine and dazzle ; and conceals with care that superiority , either of talents or of rank , which is oppressive to those who are beneath it . In a word , it is that spirit and that tenour of manners , which the gospel of Christ enjoins ...
... shine and dazzle ; and conceals with care that superiority , either of talents or of rank , which is oppressive to those who are beneath it . In a word , it is that spirit and that tenour of manners , which the gospel of Christ enjoins ...
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... shine only by reflection : have fields , and seas , and skies , of their own ; are furnished with all accommoda- tions for animal subsistence , and are supposed to be the abodes of intellectual life ; all which , together with our ...
... shine only by reflection : have fields , and seas , and skies , of their own ; are furnished with all accommoda- tions for animal subsistence , and are supposed to be the abodes of intellectual life ; all which , together with our ...
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... shine with azure , green , and gold , How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! Hope . Hope , of all passions most befriends us here ; · Passions of prouder name befriend us less . Joy has her tears , and transport has her ...
... shine with azure , green , and gold , How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! Hope . Hope , of all passions most befriends us here ; · Passions of prouder name befriend us less . Joy has her tears , and transport has her ...
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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.