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 ReadingCollins and Company, 1817 - 253 oldal |
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... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the be haviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy and ...
... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the be haviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy and ...
9. oldal
... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. है WHAT avails the show of external liberty , to one ...
... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. है WHAT avails the show of external liberty , to one ...
10. oldal
... hours so lingering ? Who are so often devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help them to get rid of themselves ! Instead of producing tranquillity , indo- lence produces a fretful restlessness of mind ...
... hours so lingering ? Who are so often devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help them to get rid of themselves ! Instead of producing tranquillity , indo- lence produces a fretful restlessness of mind ...
29. oldal
... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirmed by the reports , which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirmed by the reports , which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
31. oldal
... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and as he stood on the top of a hill ...
... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and as he stood on the top of a hill ...
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