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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... wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION 111 . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind and is connected with many accomplishments , and many virtues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and Chap . 1 . 3 ...
... wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION 111 . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind and is connected with many accomplishments , and many virtues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and Chap . 1 . 3 ...
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... him , but he could not be found . Happy is the man that findeth wisdom . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand , riches and honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her 12 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... him , but he could not be found . Happy is the man that findeth wisdom . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand , riches and honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her 12 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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... wisdom and virtue rendered her a shining example to her sex . But it was her loc to continue only a short period on this stage of being ; for , in early life , she fell a sacrifice to the wild ambi- tion of the Duke of Northumberland ...
... wisdom and virtue rendered her a shining example to her sex . But it was her loc to continue only a short period on this stage of being ; for , in early life , she fell a sacrifice to the wild ambi- tion of the Duke of Northumberland ...
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... wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flatter- ing themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness , who lives with his own faults and follies ...
... wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flatter- ing themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness , who lives with his own faults and follies ...
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... Dations ; and with contemplating those virtues which are wild and uncultivated to see courage exerting itself in fierceness , resolution in obstinacy , wisdom in cunning , The English Reader . Part 1 . CHAPTER III. ...
... Dations ; and with contemplating those virtues which are wild and uncultivated to see courage exerting itself in fierceness , resolution in obstinacy , wisdom in cunning , The English Reader . Part 1 . CHAPTER III. ...
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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.