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 ReadingEdward Little & Company, 1811 - 254 страница |
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... reason , they are in danger of precipi- tating us into much extravagance and folly . Defires and wishes are the firft fprings of action . When they become exorbitant , the whole character is likely to be tainted . If we fuffer our fancy ...
... reason , they are in danger of precipi- tating us into much extravagance and folly . Defires and wishes are the firft fprings of action . When they become exorbitant , the whole character is likely to be tainted . If we fuffer our fancy ...
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... reasons can be affigned , which the prefent fubject leads me not to difcufs . But though thofe unavoidable calamities make a part , yet they make not the chief part , of the vexations and forrows that diftrefs human life . A multitude ...
... reasons can be affigned , which the prefent fubject leads me not to difcufs . But though thofe unavoidable calamities make a part , yet they make not the chief part , of the vexations and forrows that diftrefs human life . A multitude ...
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... reason- able beings ? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted ? capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find that wisdom which fhines through all his works , in the formation of man , without looking on this ...
... reason- able beings ? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted ? capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find that wisdom which fhines through all his works , in the formation of man , without looking on this ...
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... reason for laughing , and reafon for weeping . The world is ridiculous , and I laugh at it : it is deplorable , and thou lamenteft over it . Every perfon views it in his own way and according to his own temper . One point is ...
... reason for laughing , and reafon for weeping . The world is ridiculous , and I laugh at it : it is deplorable , and thou lamenteft over it . Every perfon views it in his own way and according to his own temper . One point is ...
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... reason to be surprised , if , on fome occafions , it fills the hearts of good men with a fatisfaction not to be expreffed . The refined pleasures of a pious mind , are , in many ref- pects , fuperior to the coarse gratifications of ...
... reason to be surprised , if , on fome occafions , it fills the hearts of good men with a fatisfaction not to be expreffed . The refined pleasures of a pious mind , are , in many ref- pects , fuperior to the coarse gratifications of ...
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