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... pleasing and important attainment ; productive of improvement both to the understanding and the heart . It is essential to a complete reader , that he minutely perceives the ideas , and enter into the feel- ings of the author , whose ...
... pleasing and important attainment ; productive of improvement both to the understanding and the heart . It is essential to a complete reader , that he minutely perceives the ideas , and enter into the feel- ings of the author , whose ...
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... pleasing variety of voice , which is perceived in uttering a sentence , and which , in its nature , is perfectly distinct from emphasis , and the tones of emotion and passion . The young reader should be careful to render his modulation ...
... pleasing variety of voice , which is perceived in uttering a sentence , and which , in its nature , is perfectly distinct from emphasis , and the tones of emotion and passion . The young reader should be careful to render his modulation ...
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... pleasing and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tore of voice , by which the na ture of these pauses is intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which can seldom be ...
... pleasing and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tore of voice , by which the na ture of these pauses is intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which can seldom be ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired SECTION V. W lost the government of himself ? THAT 22 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired SECTION V. W lost the government of himself ? THAT 22 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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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.