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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... once , may breathe out his life in idle wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and atiability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the ...
... once , may breathe out his life in idle wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and atiability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the ...
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... once to have been closed ; and , by recalling joys that are past and gone , touches every spring of painful sensibility . În these agonizing moments , how relieving the thought , that the sepa ration is only temporary , not eternal ...
... once to have been closed ; and , by recalling joys that are past and gone , touches every spring of painful sensibility . În these agonizing moments , how relieving the thought , that the sepa ration is only temporary , not eternal ...
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... once delightful to every Roman ear ! - O sacred privilege of Roman citizenship ! -once sacred ! - now trampled upon ! -But what then ! Is it come to this ? Shall an inferior magistrate , a governor , who holds his whole power of the ...
... once delightful to every Roman ear ! - O sacred privilege of Roman citizenship ! -once sacred ! - now trampled upon ! -But what then ! Is it come to this ? Shall an inferior magistrate , a governor , who holds his whole power of the ...
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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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