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 ReadingIsaac Collins and Son, 1802 - 366 Seiten |
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... prefent work , as the title expreffes , aims at the attainment of three objects : to improve youth in the art of reading ; to meliorate their language and fentiments ; and to inculcate fome of the most important principles of piety and ...
... prefent work , as the title expreffes , aims at the attainment of three objects : to improve youth in the art of reading ; to meliorate their language and fentiments ; and to inculcate fome of the most important principles of piety and ...
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... prefent ' , nor things to come ' ; nor height ' , nor depth ' ; nor any other creature ' , fhall be able to feparate us from " the love of God " , " 66 The reader who would wish to fee a minute and inge- nious investigation of the ...
... prefent ' , nor things to come ' ; nor height ' , nor depth ' ; nor any other creature ' , fhall be able to feparate us from " the love of God " , " 66 The reader who would wish to fee a minute and inge- nious investigation of the ...
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... prefent employment of time fhould fre- quently be an object of thought . About what are we now bufied ? What is the ultimate fcope of our prefent pursuits and cares ? Can we justify them to ourselves ? Are they likely to produce any ...
... prefent employment of time fhould fre- quently be an object of thought . About what are we now bufied ? What is the ultimate fcope of our prefent pursuits and cares ? Can we justify them to ourselves ? Are they likely to produce any ...
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... prefent him , and the violent agitation of his mind which they difplay , the following reflections natu- rally arife : how miferable is vice , when one guilty paffion creates fo much torment ! how unavailing is profperity , when , in ...
... prefent him , and the violent agitation of his mind which they difplay , the following reflections natu- rally arife : how miferable is vice , when one guilty paffion creates fo much torment ! how unavailing is profperity , when , in ...
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... prefent , which he might keep as a per- petual memorial of her . She gave him her table- book , in which fhe had juft written three fen- tences , on feeing her husband's dead body ; one in Greek , another in Latin , a third in English ...
... prefent , which he might keep as a per- petual memorial of her . She gave him her table- book , in which fhe had juft written three fen- tences , on feeing her husband's dead body ; one in Greek , another in Latin , a third in English ...
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