The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments and to Inculate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue, with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... distress are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our ...
... distress are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our ...
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... distress , we should often find them peopled withe victims of intem- perance and sensuality , and with the children of vicious indo lence and sloth . To be wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise ...
... distress , we should often find them peopled withe victims of intem- perance and sensuality , and with the children of vicious indo lence and sloth . To be wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise ...
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... distressed for thee , my brother Jonathan , " said the plaintive and surviving David ; very pleasant hast thou been to me : thy love for me was wonderful ; passing the love of women . " 66 Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near Zutphen ...
... distressed for thee , my brother Jonathan , " said the plaintive and surviving David ; very pleasant hast thou been to me : thy love for me was wonderful ; passing the love of women . " 66 Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near Zutphen ...
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... distress which are passing at that moment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor sub- sistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can ...
... distress which are passing at that moment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor sub- sistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can ...
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... distress or difficulty , to abandon ourselves to dejection , carries no mark of a great or a worthy mind . In- stead of sinking urder trouble , and declaring " that his soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the ...
... distress or difficulty , to abandon ourselves to dejection , carries no mark of a great or a worthy mind . In- stead of sinking urder trouble , and declaring " that his soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the ...
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