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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... Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings , 10. Schemes of life often illusory , 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 12. On the true honour of man , 196 198 201 204 13. The influence of devotion on the happiness of ...
... Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings , 10. Schemes of life often illusory , 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 12. On the true honour of man , 196 198 201 204 13. The influence of devotion on the happiness of ...
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... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter , 285 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation , ........ 286 1 9. On procrastination , . 288 10. That philosophy , which stops at secondary causes , reproved , 289 11 ...
... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter , 285 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation , ........ 286 1 9. On procrastination , . 288 10. That philosophy , which stops at secondary causes , reproved , 289 11 ...
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... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many ...
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many ...
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... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly ...
... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly ...
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... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much tor- ment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ...
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much tor- ment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ...
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