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 ReadingIsaac Collins and Son, 1802 - 366 oldal |
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... minds . * THE Compiler has been careful to avoid every expreffion and fentiment , that might gratify a cor- rupt mind , or , in the leaft degree , offend the eye or ear of innocence . This he conceives to be pe culiarly incumbent on ...
... minds . * THE Compiler has been careful to avoid every expreffion and fentiment , that might gratify a cor- rupt mind , or , in the leaft degree , offend the eye or ear of innocence . This he conceives to be pe culiarly incumbent on ...
xviii. oldal
... mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activity , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which thofe ideas produce in the fpeaker . Now the end of fuch communication being , not merely to lay open the ...
... mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activity , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which thofe ideas produce in the fpeaker . Now the end of fuch communication being , not merely to lay open the ...
xix. oldal
... mind , an exertion of the fancy , or an emotion of the heart , which has not its peculiar tone , or note of the voice , by which it is to be expreffed ; and which is suited exact- ly to the degree of internal feeling . It is chiefly in ...
... mind , an exertion of the fancy , or an emotion of the heart , which has not its peculiar tone , or note of the voice , by which it is to be expreffed ; and which is suited exact- ly to the degree of internal feeling . It is chiefly in ...
xx. oldal
... mind , be still more faint than " those which indicate agreeable emotions : and , on all " occafions , preserve yourselves so far from being affected " with the fubject , as to be able to proceed through it , with that easy and masterly ...
... mind , be still more faint than " those which indicate agreeable emotions : and , on all " occafions , preserve yourselves so far from being affected " with the fubject , as to be able to proceed through it , with that easy and masterly ...
xxiv. oldal
... nineteen parts in twenty , of the hu- " man fpecies . " " He who refigns the world , has no temptations to " envy ' , hatred ' , malice ' , anger ' ; but is in conftant pof- " feffion of a ferene mind : he who follows Xxiv INTRODUCTION .
... nineteen parts in twenty , of the hu- " man fpecies . " " He who refigns the world , has no temptations to " envy ' , hatred ' , malice ' , anger ' ; but is in conftant pof- " feffion of a ferene mind : he who follows Xxiv INTRODUCTION .
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