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
... 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 enters into the feelings of the author , whose senti ...
... 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 enters into the feelings of the author , whose senti ...
Page xiii
... 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 ...
Page xix
... pleasing and expressive , they must not on- ly be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a pro- per tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is inti- mated ; much more than by the length of them , which can sel ...
... pleasing and expressive , they must not on- ly be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a pro- per tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is inti- mated ; much more than by the length of them , which can sel ...
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... pleasing sensation . Moderate and simple pleasures relish high with the temperate ; in the midst of his studied refinements , the voluptuary languishes . Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manners ; and , by a constant ...
... pleasing sensation . Moderate and simple pleasures relish high with the temperate ; in the midst of his studied refinements , the voluptuary languishes . Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manners ; and , by a constant ...
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... pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , to one who has lost the government of himself ? He that ...
... pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , to one who has lost the government of himself ? He that ...
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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.