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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... suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe any tendency to treat religion or morals with disrespect and levity , let us hold it to be a sure indication of a perverted ...
... suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe any tendency to treat religion or morals with disrespect and levity , let us hold it to be a sure indication of a perverted ...
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... suffered to lie waste by negligence : to be overrun with noxious plants ; or laid out for show , rather than use . When Aristotle was asked , “ What a man could gain by telling a falsehood , " he replied , " Not 10 Part A. The English ...
... suffered to lie waste by negligence : to be overrun with noxious plants ; or laid out for show , rather than use . When Aristotle was asked , “ What a man could gain by telling a falsehood , " he replied , " Not 10 Part A. The English ...
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... suffered in common , little room is left for envy . There is more occasion for pity and sympathy , and inclination to assist each other At our first setting out in life , when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares , when every ...
... suffered in common , little room is left for envy . There is more occasion for pity and sympathy , and inclination to assist each other At our first setting out in life , when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares , when every ...
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... of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world . facts plainly show , that if its vanity were less Chap . 1 . 15 Select Sentences .
... of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world . facts plainly show , that if its vanity were less Chap . 1 . 15 Select Sentences .
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... suffered no man to come in with the king , to the ban quet that she had prepared , but nyself ; and to - morrow also am I invited to her with the king . what is the conclusion ? " Yet all this availeth me nothing so After all this ...
... suffered no man to come in with the king , to the ban quet that she had prepared , but nyself ; and to - morrow also am I invited to her with the king . what is the conclusion ? " Yet all this availeth me nothing so After all this ...
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