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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... means soever it may be derived upon us , is the gift Him who is the great Author of good , and the Father of mercies . If gratitude , when exerted towards one another , naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a ...
... means soever it may be derived upon us , is the gift Him who is the great Author of good , and the Father of mercies . If gratitude , when exerted towards one another , naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a ...
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... means sufficient to relieve it . They rather give despair than consolation . In a word , a man might reply to one of these comforters , as Augustus did to his friend , who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he ...
... means sufficient to relieve it . They rather give despair than consolation . In a word , a man might reply to one of these comforters , as Augustus did to his friend , who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he ...
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... means since first he made the world ? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than 210 Part 2 The English Reader . That philosophy, which stops at secondary causes, reproved,
... means since first he made the world ? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than 210 Part 2 The English Reader . That philosophy, which stops at secondary causes, reproved,
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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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