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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Where so much is suffered in common , little room is left for envy . There is more
occasion for pity and sympathy , and inclination to assist each other . At our first
setting out in life , when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares , when ...
Where so much is suffered in common , little room is left for envy . There is more
occasion for pity and sympathy , and inclination to assist each other . At our first
setting out in life , when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares , when ...
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How much soever a person may suffer from injustice , he is always in bazard of
sufo fering more from the prosecution of revenge . The violence of an enemy
cannot infiet what is equal to the torment be creates to hiniselt , by means of the
fierce ...
How much soever a person may suffer from injustice , he is always in bazard of
sufo fering more from the prosecution of revenge . The violence of an enemy
cannot infiet what is equal to the torment be creates to hiniselt , by means of the
fierce ...
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... cannot be foreseen ; and he seldom fails of suffering most from their poisonous
effect . who first allowed them to flow . ... broken confi . dence , and open enmity ,
the suspicious temper itself is one of the worst evils which any inan can suffer .
... cannot be foreseen ; and he seldom fails of suffering most from their poisonous
effect . who first allowed them to flow . ... broken confi . dence , and open enmity ,
the suspicious temper itself is one of the worst evils which any inan can suffer .
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I return to suffer , though I have not deserved death . Every principle of honour
and goodness , forbids me to allow my friend to die for me . Dionysius , Dost thou
, then , love him better than thyself ? Pythios . No ; I love him as myself . But I am ...
I return to suffer , though I have not deserved death . Every principle of honour
and goodness , forbids me to allow my friend to die for me . Dionysius , Dost thou
, then , love him better than thyself ? Pythios . No ; I love him as myself . But I am ...
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Let those who suffered by his injustice answer . But his prætorship in Sicily
crowns all his works of wickedaess ; and finishes a lasting monument to his
infamy . The mischiefs done by him in that unhappy country , during the three
years of his ...
Let those who suffered by his injustice answer . But his prætorship in Sicily
crowns all his works of wickedaess ; and finishes a lasting monument to his
infamy . The mischiefs done by him in that unhappy country , during the three
years of his ...
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Información bibliográfica
| 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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