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 Reading |
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Every degree of guilt incurred by yielding to temptation , tends to debase the
mind , and to weaken the generous and benevolent principles of human nature .
Luxury , pride , and vanity , have frequently as much influence in corrupting the ...
Every degree of guilt incurred by yielding to temptation , tends to debase the
mind , and to weaken the generous and benevolent principles of human nature .
Luxury , pride , and vanity , have frequently as much influence in corrupting the ...
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Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and leaves it open to every
pleasing sensation . Moderate and simple pleasures relish high with the
temperate ; in the midst of his studied refinements , the voluptuary languishes .
Gentleness ...
Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and leaves it open to every
pleasing sensation . Moderate and simple pleasures relish high with the
temperate ; in the midst of his studied refinements , the voluptuary languishes .
Gentleness ...
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The evil lies in the state of mind , not in our condition of forlune ; and by no
alteration of circumstances is likely to be remedied . When the love of
unwarrantable pleasures , and of vicious companions , is allowed to amuse
young persons , to ...
The evil lies in the state of mind , not in our condition of forlune ; and by no
alteration of circumstances is likely to be remedied . When the love of
unwarrantable pleasures , and of vicious companions , is allowed to amuse
young persons , to ...
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Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance
, by enervating them , ends generally in misery Title and ancestry render a good
man more illustrious : but an ill one more contemptible . Vice is infamous ...
Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance
, by enervating them , ends generally in misery Title and ancestry render a good
man more illustrious : but an ill one more contemptible . Vice is infamous ...
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Under trouble , it souths their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their vir . tue :
anil , in their dying moments enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ?
O grave , where is thy victory . " SECTION VII . A GESILA 28 , King of Sparta ...
Under trouble , it souths their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their vir . tue :
anil , in their dying moments enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ?
O grave , where is thy victory . " SECTION VII . A GESILA 28 , King of Sparta ...
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| Título | 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 ... |
| Autor | Lindley Murray |
| Editor | John J. Williams, 1822 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 23 Mar 2007 |
| Largo | 264 páginas |
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