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Page 6
... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
Page 10
... less degrees of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it : but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on ...
... less degrees of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it : but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on ...
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... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his vir- tue ? What ...
... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his vir- tue ? What ...
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... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
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... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have beer , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ...
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have beer , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ...
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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.