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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... wise man is happy , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determined er irely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ; but ...
... wise man is happy , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determined er irely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ; but ...
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... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed floating on .e ...
... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincide . Man , in his highest earthly glory , is but a reed floating on .e ...
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... 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 . He that is slow to ...
... 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 . He that is slow to ...
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... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post : to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give ...
... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post : to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give ...
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... 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 of wretchedness , who lives with his own ...
... 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 of wretchedness , who lives with his own ...
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