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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xiv. oldal
... truth , that mankind had trans- greffed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on firft ; and the line be read , " Of man's firft difobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the cafe ) to have ...
... truth , that mankind had trans- greffed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on firft ; and the line be read , " Of man's firft difobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the cafe ) to have ...
xv. oldal
... truth , no cenfure from " others can make them wrong . 46 Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , yet not dull ; Strong , without rage ; without o'erflowing , full . ” " A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy , his " crimes ...
... truth , no cenfure from " others can make them wrong . 46 Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , yet not dull ; Strong , without rage ; without o'erflowing , full . ” " A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy , his " crimes ...
2. oldal
... truth form the bafis of every virtue . 2 Truth and error , virtue and vice , are things of immutable nature . Change and alteration form the very effence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and ...
... truth form the bafis of every virtue . 2 Truth and error , virtue and vice , are things of immutable nature . Change and alteration form the very effence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and ...
4. oldal
... truth and delicacy of his fenfibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have established our principles , let us not fuffer them to be fhaken by the fcoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the feeptical . When we obferve ...
... truth and delicacy of his fenfibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have established our principles , let us not fuffer them to be fhaken by the fcoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the feeptical . When we obferve ...
6. oldal
... Thofe pleasures may cut short our health and life . He who is accustomed to turn aside from the world , and commune with himself in retirement , will , fometimes at least , hear the truths which 6 ' Part I. The English Reader .
... Thofe pleasures may cut short our health and life . He who is accustomed to turn aside from the world , and commune with himself in retirement , will , fometimes at least , hear the truths which 6 ' Part I. The English Reader .
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