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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... tences with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to sentences more complicated and irregular , and of a construction entirely dif- ferent . The language of the pieces chosen for ...
... tences with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to sentences more complicated and irregular , and of a construction entirely dif- ferent . The language of the pieces chosen for ...
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... tence its best consolations ; which restrains even the least approaches to guilt , and yet makes those allowances for the infirmities of our nature , which the Stoic , pride denied to it but which its real imperfection , and the ...
... tence its best consolations ; which restrains even the least approaches to guilt , and yet makes those allowances for the infirmities of our nature , which the Stoic , pride denied to it but which its real imperfection , and the ...
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... tence . For these causes , the Jews caught me in the temple ; and went about to kill me . Having , however , obtained help from GOD , I continue , to this day , wit nessing both small and great ; saying no other things than those which ...
... tence . For these causes , the Jews caught me in the temple ; and went about to kill me . Having , however , obtained help from GOD , I continue , to this day , wit nessing both small and great ; saying no other things than those which ...
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... all in the hour of death . When the soul is hovering , in the last moments of its separa- tion ; when it is just entering on another state of exis- tence , to converse with scenes , and objects , 178 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... all in the hour of death . When the soul is hovering , in the last moments of its separa- tion ; when it is just entering on another state of exis- tence , to converse with scenes , and objects , 178 Part 1 . The English Reader .
Página 179
... tence , to converse with scenes , and objects , and com- panions , that are altogether new ; what can support her under such tremblings of thought , such fear , such anxiety , such apprehensions , but the casting of all her cares upon ...
... tence , to converse with scenes , and objects , and com- panions , that are altogether new ; what can support her under such tremblings of thought , such fear , such anxiety , such apprehensions , but the casting of all her cares upon ...
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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.