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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... religion in the most amiable light ; and which recommend a great variety of moral duties , by the excellence of their nature , and the happy effects they pro- duce . These subjects are exhibited in a style and manner , which are ...
... religion in the most amiable light ; and which recommend a great variety of moral duties , by the excellence of their nature , and the happy effects they pro- duce . These subjects are exhibited in a style and manner , which are ...
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... religious instruction derives its efficacy , not so much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and 2 ลง Part 1 . The English Reader .
... religious instruction derives its efficacy , not so much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and 2 ลง Part 1 . The English Reader .
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... religion , no heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delica- cy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , we have established our principles , let us not ...
... religion , no heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delica- cy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , we have established our principles , let us not ...
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... religion breathes mildness and af 、 fability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the be- haviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful far remov- ed from that gloomy and illiberal superstition , which clouds the brow , sharpens the ...
... religion breathes mildness and af 、 fability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the be- haviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful far remov- ed from that gloomy and illiberal superstition , which clouds the brow , sharpens the ...
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... religion and virtue ; and lastly , that it is most conducive to our hap- piness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employ- ed ; to trace our own progress in ...
... religion and virtue ; and lastly , that it is most conducive to our hap- piness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employ- ed ; to trace our own progress in ...
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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.