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, 1834 - 252 Seiten |
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... religion in the most amiable light and which recommend a great variety of moral duties , by the excellence of their nature , and the happy effects they produce . These subjects are exhibited in a style and manner which are calculated to ...
... religion in the most amiable light and which recommend a great variety of moral duties , by the excellence of their nature , and the happy effects they produce . These subjects are exhibited in a style and manner which are calculated to ...
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... religious instruction derives its efficacy , not se much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion ...
... religious instruction derives its efficacy , not se much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion ...
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... 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 and liberal superstition , which clouds the brow , sharpens the ...
... 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 and liberal superstition , which clouds the brow , sharpens the ...
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... religion and virtue ; and , lastly , that it is most conducive to cur happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence ...
... religion and virtue ; and , lastly , that it is most conducive to cur happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence ...
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... religion removes not all the evils of life ; though it promises no continuance of undisturbed prosperity , ( which adeed it were not salutary for man always to enjoy , ) yet , is it mitigates the evils which necessarily belong to our ...
... religion removes not all the evils of life ; though it promises no continuance of undisturbed prosperity , ( which adeed it were not salutary for man always to enjoy , ) yet , is it mitigates the evils which necessarily belong to our ...
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