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 ReadingLincoln & Edmands, 1824 - 264 Seiten |
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... condition , having no desire to enjoy any longer a happiness so terrible . 5 By this device , Dionysius imimated to Damocles , how miserable he was in the midst of all his treasures ; and in pos- session of all the honours and ...
... condition , having no desire to enjoy any longer a happiness so terrible . 5 By this device , Dionysius imimated to Damocles , how miserable he was in the midst of all his treasures ; and in pos- session of all the honours and ...
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... condition , many of the present philosophers tell us , that our discontent only hurts ourselves , without being able to make any alteration in our circumstances ; others , that whatever evil befalls us is derived to us by a fatal neces ...
... condition , many of the present philosophers tell us , that our discontent only hurts ourselves , without being able to make any alteration in our circumstances ; others , that whatever evil befalls us is derived to us by a fatal neces ...
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... condition of fortune . Often , did we know the whole , we should be inclined to pity the state of those whom we now envy SECTION XIII . BLAIR . Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty . THE wide circle of human society ...
... condition of fortune . Often , did we know the whole , we should be inclined to pity the state of those whom we now envy SECTION XIII . BLAIR . Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty . THE wide circle of human society ...
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Select Sentences and Paragraphs | 23 |
The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on them | 37 |
No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind | 39 |
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing cæsura Caius Verres cerning character cheer comfort consider danger death Dioclesian distress Divine dread earth enjoy enjoyments ev'ry evil eyes father feel felicity folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge Jugurtha kind king labour lence live look Lord lord Guilford Dudley mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Moux nature never noble numbers Numidia o'er objects observe Ortogrul ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfect person pleasing pleasures possession pow'r present prince proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rising scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit tal cloud temper tempest thee things thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish words youth