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... consider ourselves as reading to them . We naturally and mechanically utter our words with such a degree of strength , as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we address , provided he is within the reach of our voice . As this ...
... consider ourselves as reading to them . We naturally and mechanically utter our words with such a degree of strength , as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we address , provided he is within the reach of our voice . As this ...
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... Consider yourselves not only as sensitive , but as rational beings ; not only as ra tional , but social ; not only as social , but immortal . Art thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industrious , peaceable and contented . Art thou ...
... Consider yourselves not only as sensitive , but as rational beings ; not only as ra tional , but social ; not only as social , but immortal . Art thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industrious , peaceable and contented . Art thou ...
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... consider , that though this may be sport to you , it is death to us . ” Sully , the great statesman of France , always retained at his table , in his most prosperous days , the same frugality to which he had been accustomed in early ...
... consider , that though this may be sport to you , it is death to us . ” Sully , the great statesman of France , always retained at his table , in his most prosperous days , the same frugality to which he had been accustomed in early ...
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... consider as rep- robates . No one ought to consider himself as insignificant in the sight of his Creator . In our several stations , we are all sent forth to be labourers in the vineyard of our heavenly Father Every man has his work ...
... consider as rep- robates . No one ought to consider himself as insignificant in the sight of his Creator . In our several stations , we are all sent forth to be labourers in the vineyard of our heavenly Father Every man has his work ...
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... consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest vio- lence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to pursue the new path , which he ...
... consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest vio- lence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to pursue the new path , which he ...
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The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Verse, From the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2017 |
The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.