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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... paused for a time , and be . gan to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to ...
... paused for a time , and be . gan to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to ...
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... paused ; drop- ped a tear ; looked upon his children ; and proceeded . " What I forfeit for myself is a trifle : that my in- discretions should reach my posterity , wounds me to the heart . Pardon my infirmity . - Something I should ...
... paused ; drop- ped a tear ; looked upon his children ; and proceeded . " What I forfeit for myself is a trifle : that my in- discretions should reach my posterity , wounds me to the heart . Pardon my infirmity . - Something I should ...
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... pause . The current of ideas has been always flowing . The wheels of the spiritual engine have circulated with perpetual motion . Let me ask , what has been the fruit of this incessant activity , with the greater part of mankind ? Of ...
... pause . The current of ideas has been always flowing . The wheels of the spiritual engine have circulated with perpetual motion . Let me ask , what has been the fruit of this incessant activity , with the greater part of mankind ? Of ...
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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.