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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... hope or imagine , which the master of this palace has not obtained ? The dishes of luxury cover his table ; the voice of harmony lulls him in his bowers ; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java , and sleeps upon the down of the ...
... hope or imagine , which the master of this palace has not obtained ? The dishes of luxury cover his table ; the voice of harmony lulls him in his bowers ; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java , and sleeps upon the down of the ...
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... hope ; he was incited by desire ; he walked swift- ly forward over the vallies , and saw the hills gradually rising before him . As he passed along , his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise ; he was fanned ...
... hope ; he was incited by desire ; he walked swift- ly forward over the vallies , and saw the hills gradually rising before him . As he passed along , his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise ; he was fanned ...
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... hope , with gaiety and with diligence , and travel on awhile in the direct road of piety towards the mansions of rest . In a short time , we remit our fervour , and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty , and some more easy ...
... hope , with gaiety and with diligence , and travel on awhile in the direct road of piety towards the mansions of rest . In a short time , we remit our fervour , and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty , and some more easy ...
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... hope for , SECTION III . On forgiveness . ADDISON . THE most plain and natural sentiments of equity con- cur with divine authority , to enforce the duty of for- giveness . Let him who has never in his life done wrong , be allowed the ...
... hope for , SECTION III . On forgiveness . ADDISON . THE most plain and natural sentiments of equity con- cur with divine authority , to enforce the duty of for- giveness . Let him who has never in his life done wrong , be allowed the ...
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... happiness : but an in- gredient , however , which he , who voluntarily distress- es himself with cares , in which he has no necessary and personal interest , must never hope to possess . 64 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... happiness : but an in- gredient , however , which he , who voluntarily distress- es himself with cares , in which he has no necessary and personal interest , must never hope to possess . 64 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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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.