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 Reading |
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Page vi
... occafion . A To improve the young mind , and to afford fome affiftance to tutors , in the arduous and im- portant work of education , were the motives which led to this production . If the Author fhould be fo fuccefsful as to accomplish ...
... occafion . A To improve the young mind , and to afford fome affiftance to tutors , in the arduous and im- portant work of education , were the motives which led to this production . If the Author fhould be fo fuccefsful as to accomplish ...
Page xxi
... occafion disappointment and difguft . But the most frequent and the principal ufe of paufes , is , to mark the divifions of the fenfe , and at the fame time to allow the reader to draw his breath ; and the proper and delicate adjustment ...
... occafion disappointment and difguft . But the most frequent and the principal ufe of paufes , is , to mark the divifions of the fenfe , and at the fame time to allow the reader to draw his breath ; and the proper and delicate adjustment ...
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... occafion for pity and fympathy , and inclination to affift each other . At our first setting out in life , when yet unac- quainted with the world and its fnares , when every pleasure enchants with its fmile , and every object fhines ...
... occafion for pity and fympathy , and inclination to affift each other . At our first setting out in life , when yet unac- quainted with the world and its fnares , when every pleasure enchants with its fmile , and every object fhines ...
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... occafion to compliment him on the extent of his power , his treafures , and royal magnificence ; and declared that no monarch had ever been greater or happier than Dionyfius . " Haft thou a mind , Damocles , " fays the King , " to tafte ...
... occafion to compliment him on the extent of his power , his treafures , and royal magnificence ; and declared that no monarch had ever been greater or happier than Dionyfius . " Haft thou a mind , Damocles , " fays the King , " to tafte ...
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... occafion was Hazael , who appears to have been one of the princes , or chief men , of the Syrian court . Charged with rich gifts from the king , he prefents himself before the prophet ; and accofts him in Chap . II . 27 Narrative Pieces ...
... occafion was Hazael , who appears to have been one of the princes , or chief men , of the Syrian court . Charged with rich gifts from the king , he prefents himself before the prophet ; and accofts him in Chap . II . 27 Narrative Pieces ...
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