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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... rich , study note " to increase his stores , but to diminish his desires . " " The " Mexican figures , or picture writing , represent things not " words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the " understanding . " * By ...
... rich , study note " to increase his stores , but to diminish his desires . " " The " Mexican figures , or picture writing , represent things not " words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the " understanding . " * By ...
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... rich embroidery , placed for his favourite . Side - boards , loaded with gold and silver plate of immense value , were arranged in the apart- ment . Pages of extraordinary beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his ...
... rich embroidery , placed for his favourite . Side - boards , loaded with gold and silver plate of immense value , were arranged in the apart- ment . Pages of extraordinary beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his ...
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... rich gifts from ́the king , he presents himself before the prophet ; and accosts him in terms of the highest respect . During the conference which they held together , Elisha fixed his eye steadfastly on the countenance of Hazael ; and ...
... rich gifts from ́the king , he presents himself before the prophet ; and accosts him in terms of the highest respect . During the conference which they held together , Elisha fixed his eye steadfastly on the countenance of Hazael ; and ...
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... rich . " Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his chamber for six months , to deliberate how he should grow rich . He sometimes proposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings in India ; and some- times resolved ...
... rich . " Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his chamber for six months , to deliberate how he should grow rich . He sometimes proposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings in India ; and some- times resolved ...
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... rich ; and as he stood on the top of a hill , shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before Ortogrul , " said the old man , " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ...
... rich ; and as he stood on the top of a hill , shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before Ortogrul , " said the old man , " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ...
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Anti-jacobin Review Antiparos appear attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort consider Damocles death delight DEMOCRITUS distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyments envy eternity ev'ry evil father favour folly fortune friendship Fundanus give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n heaven HERACLITUS honour hope human indulged innocence Jugurtha kind king labours Lindley Murray live look Lord Lord Guilford Dudley mankind ment mercy Micipsa midst mind misery nature never Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfection person pleasing pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION sense shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit temper tempest thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish youth