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 xiv
... continued , with a little variation , on two , and some- times more words together . The following sentences exemplify both the parts of this position : " If you seek to make one rich , study not to increase his stores , but to diminish ...
... continued , with a little variation , on two , and some- times more words together . The following sentences exemplify both the parts of this position : " If you seek to make one rich , study not to increase his stores , but to diminish ...
Page xviii
... continued ac . tion ; to the hearer , that the ear also , may be relieved from the fatigue which it would otherwise endure from a continu . ity of sound ; and that the understanding may have sufficient time to mark the distinction of ...
... continued ac . tion ; to the hearer , that the ear also , may be relieved from the fatigue which it would otherwise endure from a continu . ity of sound ; and that the understanding may have sufficient time to mark the distinction of ...
Page 20
... continued exulting in his prosperity . Invit ed by Ahasuerus to a royal banquet , which Esther the queen had prepared , he went forth that day joyful and with a glad heart . ” But behold how slight an incident was sufficient to poison ...
... continued exulting in his prosperity . Invit ed by Ahasuerus to a royal banquet , which Esther the queen had prepared , he went forth that day joyful and with a glad heart . ” But behold how slight an incident was sufficient to poison ...
Page 30
... continued to walk for a time , without the least remission of his ardour , except that he was sometimes tempted to stop by the music of the birds , which the heat had assembled in the shade ; and sometimes amused himself with · plucking ...
... continued to walk for a time , without the least remission of his ardour , except that he was sometimes tempted to stop by the music of the birds , which the heat had assembled in the shade ; and sometimes amused himself with · plucking ...
Page 45
... continued to " walk with God , " when the world apostatized from him . He pleased God , and was beloved of him ; so that living among sinners , he was translated to heaven without seeing death ; " Yea , speedily was he taken away , lest ...
... continued to " walk with God , " when the world apostatized from him . He pleased God , and was beloved of him ; so that living among sinners , he was translated to heaven without seeing death ; " Yea , speedily was he taken away , lest ...
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Page 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.