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 ReadingM. Bartgis, 1819 - 252 páginas |
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... spirit , and moderate expectations , are excel- lent safeguards of the mind , in this uncertain and changing state . There is nothing , except simplicity of intention , and purity of principle , that can stand the test of near approach ...
... spirit , and moderate expectations , are excel- lent safeguards of the mind , in this uncertain and changing state . There is nothing , except simplicity of intention , and purity of principle , that can stand the test of near approach ...
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... spirit , to a hut placed on the shore , which every wind shakes , and every wave overflows . Nothing is so inconsistent with self - possession as violent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and ...
... spirit , to a hut placed on the shore , which every wind shakes , and every wave overflows . Nothing is so inconsistent with self - possession as violent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and ...
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... spirit , to Jerusalem , not knowing the things that shall befall me there , save that the Holy Spirit witnesseth in every city , saying , that bonds and afflictions abide me . But none of these things move me ; neither count I my life ...
... spirit , to Jerusalem , not knowing the things that shall befall me there , save that the Holy Spirit witnesseth in every city , saying , that bonds and afflictions abide me . But none of these things move me ; neither count I my life ...
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Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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Antiparos appear attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comforts cusations dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes fall father feel folly fortune Fundanus gentle give Greek language ground Haman hand happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace person pleasing pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words young youth