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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... thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industri- ous , peaceable and contented . Art thou wealthy ? - Show thyself beneficent and charitable , condescending and humane . Though religion removes not all the evils of life , though it ...
... thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industri- ous , peaceable and contented . Art thou wealthy ? - Show thyself beneficent and charitable , condescending and humane . Though religion removes not all the evils of life , though it ...
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... thou been to me ; thy love to me was wonder- ful ; passing the love of women . " Sir Philip Sidney , at the batile near Zutphen , was wound . ed by a musket - ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a ...
... thou been to me ; thy love to me was wonder- ful ; passing the love of women . " Sir Philip Sidney , at the batile near Zutphen , was wound . ed by a musket - ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a ...
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... thou mayst be truly wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend : but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebuke is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him ...
... thou mayst be truly wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend : but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful . Open rebuke is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him ...
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... thou the God of thy fathers ; and serv him with a perfect heart , and with a willig mind . - If thou seek him , he will be found of thee : but if thou forsake him , he will cast thee off forever . SECTION IX . THAT every day has its ...
... thou the God of thy fathers ; and serv him with a perfect heart , and with a willig mind . - If thou seek him , he will be found of thee : but if thou forsake him , he will cast thee off forever . SECTION IX . THAT every day has its ...
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... thou a mind , Damocles , " says the king , " to taste this happiness ? and to know , by experience , what the enjoyments are , of which thou hast so high an idea ? " Damocles , with joy accepted the offer . The king ordered that a royal ...
... thou a mind , Damocles , " says the king , " to taste this happiness ? and to know , by experience , what the enjoyments are , of which thou hast so high an idea ? " Damocles , with joy accepted the offer . The king ordered that a royal ...
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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.