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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... pleasing sensation . Moderate and simple pleasures relish high with the tem perate in the midst of his studied refinements , the volup tuary languishes . Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manners ; and , by a constant ...
... pleasing sensation . Moderate and simple pleasures relish high with the tem perate in the midst of his studied refinements , the volup tuary languishes . Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manners ; and , by a constant ...
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... pleasing and trium- phant consideration in religion , than this of the perpetual pro- gress , which the soul makes towards the perfection of its na ture , without ever arriving at a period in it . To look upon the soul as going on from ...
... pleasing and trium- phant consideration in religion , than this of the perpetual pro- gress , which the soul makes towards the perfection of its na ture , without ever arriving at a period in it . To look upon the soul as going on from ...
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... pleasing ones more vivid and animated . The selfish man languishes in his narrow circle of pleasures . They are confined to what af fects his own interest . He is obliged to repeat the same gratifications , till they become insipid ...
... pleasing ones more vivid and animated . The selfish man languishes in his narrow circle of pleasures . They are confined to what af fects his own interest . He is obliged to repeat the same gratifications , till they become insipid ...
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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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