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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... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
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... truths of so much use to man- kind , that they acknowledge me to have been their benefactor . Bayle . Their ignorance makes them think so . other philosopher will come hereafter , and show those truths to be falsehoods . He will pretend ...
... truths of so much use to man- kind , that they acknowledge me to have been their benefactor . Bayle . Their ignorance makes them think so . other philosopher will come hereafter , and show those truths to be falsehoods . He will pretend ...
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... truth , will ever fail ; or that , because the whims of fanatics and the divinity of the schoolmen , cannot now be supported , the doctrines of that religion , which I , the declared enemy of all enthusiasm and false reasoning , firmly ...
... truth , will ever fail ; or that , because the whims of fanatics and the divinity of the schoolmen , cannot now be supported , the doctrines of that religion , which I , the declared enemy of all enthusiasm and false reasoning , firmly ...
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Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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