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 ReadingM. Bartgis, 1819 - 252 Seiten |
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... comfort in those whom he possesses . Be- lieving others to be his enemies , he will of course make them such . Let his caution be ever so great , the asperity of his thoughts will often break out in his behaviour ; and in re- turn for ...
... comfort in those whom he possesses . Be- lieving others to be his enemies , he will of course make them such . Let his caution be ever so great , the asperity of his thoughts will often break out in his behaviour ; and in re- turn for ...
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... comfort . 2. Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of mankind , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul of youth had fondly dreamt of , has rendered the heart almost ...
... comfort . 2. Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of mankind , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul of youth had fondly dreamt of , has rendered the heart almost ...
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... comfort to the mind of man , in times of poverty and affliction ; but most of all , in the hour of death When the soul is hovering in the last moments of its separation ; when it is just entering on another state of existence , to ...
... comfort to the mind of man , in times of poverty and affliction ; but most of all , in the hour of death When the soul is hovering in the last moments of its separation ; when it is just entering on another state of existence , to ...
Inhalt
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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Antiparos appear attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comforts cusations dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes fall father feel folly fortune Fundanus gentle give Greek language ground Haman hand happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace person pleasing pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words young youth