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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... such pauscз , is one of the most nice and difficult articles of delivery . In all reading , INTRODUCTION . Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ, on his discipies, in his sermon on the mount, 139.
... such pauscз , is one of the most nice and difficult articles of delivery . In all reading , INTRODUCTION . Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ, on his discipies, in his sermon on the mount, 139.
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... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many ...
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many ...
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... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of world- ly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the va nity of the world , facts plainly ...
... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of world- ly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the va nity of the world , facts plainly ...
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... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the eight of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures how ...
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the eight of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures how ...
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... reflections ! 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdoin avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons ...
... reflections ! 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdoin avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons ...
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing breath Caius Verres character death degree Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emotions emphasis enjoy enjoyment eternity ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune friendship give grave accent ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human imitative powers inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner means Micipsa midst mind misery nature never Numidia o'er observe ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perly persons pleasing pleasure possession pow'r praise pride prince proper Pythias racter reading religion render rest riches rising Roman senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit spirited command temper tempest thee things thou thought tion tones truth vanity verse vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words young youth