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 ...T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1805 - 364 páginas |
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... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
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... less degree of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it but its application is not arbitrary , depends ing on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on words ...
... less degree of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it but its application is not arbitrary , depends ing on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on words ...
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... - day , ( says Martial , ) will be less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which 10 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER . Creation,
... - day , ( says Martial , ) will be less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which 10 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER . Creation,
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... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons envied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons envied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
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... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsa- -tisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to cor- rupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more complete ...
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsa- -tisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to cor- rupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more complete ...
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