The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments and to Inculate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue, with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingB. Olds, 1852 - 252 páginas |
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... interests . Forsake him not in danger . Abhor the thought of acquiring any advantage by his prejudice . Man , always prosperous , would be giddy and insolent ; al- ways afflicted , would be sullen or despondent . Hopes and fears , joy ...
... interests . Forsake him not in danger . Abhor the thought of acquiring any advantage by his prejudice . Man , always prosperous , would be giddy and insolent ; al- ways afflicted , would be sullen or despondent . Hopes and fears , joy ...
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... interest , or honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric ...
... interest , or honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric ...
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... interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and provides for the future . 9 He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked down for useful purposes , and their memory re- mains . Whereas those hours ...
... interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and provides for the future . 9 He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked down for useful purposes , and their memory re- mains . Whereas those hours ...
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... interest , and covetousness upon vanity . Self- denial , therefore , belongs , in common , to vice and virtue ; but with this remarkable difference , that the passions which ∞ ១ virtue requires us to mortify , it tends to weaken CHAP ...
... interest , and covetousness upon vanity . Self- denial , therefore , belongs , in common , to vice and virtue ; but with this remarkable difference , that the passions which ∞ ១ virtue requires us to mortify , it tends to weaken CHAP ...
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... Interest as well as Duty THE wide circle of human society is diversified by an endless variety of characters , dispositions , and passions.- Uniformity is in no respect , the genius of the world . Every man is marked by some peculiarity ...
... Interest as well as Duty THE wide circle of human society is diversified by an endless variety of characters , dispositions , and passions.- Uniformity is in no respect , the genius of the world . Every man is marked by some peculiarity ...
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