The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Form the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingW. and J. Bolles, 1842 - 252 páginas |
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... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so- cial , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy ...
... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so- cial , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy ...
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... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , 18 PART L ...
... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , 18 PART L ...
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... hours so lingering ? Who are so often devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help them to get rid of themselves ? Instead of producing tranquillity , indolence produces a fretful restlessness of mind ...
... hours so lingering ? Who are so often devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help them to get rid of themselves ? Instead of producing tranquillity , indolence produces a fretful restlessness of mind ...
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... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body car- ried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirmed by the reports which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body car- ried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirmed by the reports which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
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... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country , in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and , as he stood on the top of a ...
... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country , in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and , as he stood on the top of a ...
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affections amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comfort consider death Democritus Dioclesian distress Divine dread earth emphasis enemies enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus gentle give Greek language ground happiness Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa mind misery nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace perfection person pleasing pleasures possession pow'r present prince proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spect spirit suffer temper tempest tence thee things thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish words youth