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 xvi
... mountains of Gilboa , let there be no dew nor rain upon you , nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away ; the shield of Saul , as though he had not been anointed with oil . " The first of these ...
... mountains of Gilboa , let there be no dew nor rain upon you , nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away ; the shield of Saul , as though he had not been anointed with oil . " The first of these ...
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... mountains of Zion . The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold ; he shall therefore beg in harvest , and have nothing I went by the field of the slothful , and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding and lo ! it was all ...
... mountains of Zion . The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold ; he shall therefore beg in harvest , and have nothing I went by the field of the slothful , and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding and lo ! it was all ...
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... father ; turn thine eye on the oppo . site mountain . " Ortogrul looked , and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks , roaring with the noise of E thunder , and scattering its foam on the impending woods Chap . 2 . 25 Narrative Pieces .
... father ; turn thine eye on the oppo . site mountain . " Ortogrul looked , and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks , roaring with the noise of E thunder , and scattering its foam on the impending woods Chap . 2 . 25 Narrative Pieces .
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... mountain torrent ; or for a slow and gradual increase , resembling the rill gliding from the well ? " " Let me be quickly rich , " said Ortogrul ; " let the golden stream be quick and violent . " " Look round thee , " said his father ...
... mountain torrent ; or for a slow and gradual increase , resembling the rill gliding from the well ? " " Let me be quickly rich , " said Ortogrul ; " let the golden stream be quick and violent . " " Look round thee , " said his father ...
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... mountain at length appear- ed to lose itself in the clouds . As I was gazing on these things with astonishment , a friendly instructer suddenly appeared : " The mountain before thee , " said he , " is the Hill of Science . On the top is ...
... mountain at length appear- ed to lose itself in the clouds . As I was gazing on these things with astonishment , a friendly instructer suddenly appeared : " The mountain before thee , " said he , " is the Hill of Science . On the top is ...
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