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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... wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many accomplishments , and many virtues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and CHAP . I. 15 ...
... wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many accomplishments , and many virtues . Innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; and CHAP . I. 15 ...
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... wisdom . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand , riches and ho nour : her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her paths are peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is ...
... wisdom . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand , riches and ho nour : her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her paths are peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is ...
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... wisdom and virtue rendered her a shining example to her sex . it was her lot to continue only a short period on this stage of being ; for , in early life , she fell a sacrifice to the wild am- bition of the duke of Northumberland , who ...
... wisdom and virtue rendered her a shining example to her sex . it was her lot to continue only a short period on this stage of being ; for , in early life , she fell a sacrifice to the wild am- bition of the duke of Northumberland , who ...
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... wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness , who lives with his own faults and follies always ...
... wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness , who lives with his own faults and follies always ...
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... wisdom in cunning , patience in sullenness and despair . 4 Men's passions operate variously , and appear in different kinds of actions , according as they are more or less rectified and swayed by reason . When one hears of negroes , who ...
... wisdom in cunning , patience in sullenness and despair . 4 Men's passions operate variously , and appear in different kinds of actions , according as they are more or less rectified and swayed by reason . When one hears of negroes , who ...
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