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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... soul is rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continu- ally waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
... soul is rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continu- ally waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
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... soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to ...
... soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to ...
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... soul was shaken with a storm of passion . Wrath , pride , and dẹ . sire of revenge , rose into fury . himself in public ; but as soon as he came to his own house , With difficulty , he restrained he was forced to disclose the agony of ...
... soul was shaken with a storm of passion . Wrath , pride , and dẹ . sire of revenge , rose into fury . himself in public ; but as soon as he came to his own house , With difficulty , he restrained he was forced to disclose the agony of ...
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... soul , induced her to send priests , who molested her with perpetual disputation ; and even a reprieve of three days was granted her , in hopes that she would be persuaded , during that time , to pay , by a timely con- version to popery ...
... soul , induced her to send priests , who molested her with perpetual disputation ; and even a reprieve of three days was granted her , in hopes that she would be persuaded , during that time , to pay , by a timely con- version to popery ...
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... soul : and that if her fault deserved punishment , her youth , at least , and her imprudence , were worthy of excuse ; and that God and posterity , she trusted , would show her fa- vour . " On the scaffold , she made a speech to the by ...
... soul : and that if her fault deserved punishment , her youth , at least , and her imprudence , were worthy of excuse ; and that God and posterity , she trusted , would show her fa- vour . " On the scaffold , she made a speech to the by ...
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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.