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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... 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 , was wounded by a musket ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and ...
... 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 , was wounded by a musket ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and ...
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... Hast thou a mind , Damocles , " says the king , " to taste this happiness ; and to know , by experience , what the enjoyments are , of which thou hast so high an idea ? " mocles , with joy , accepted the offer . The king ordered that a ...
... Hast thou a mind , Damocles , " says the king , " to taste this happiness ; and to know , by experience , what the enjoyments are , of which thou hast so high an idea ? " mocles , with joy , accepted the offer . The king ordered that a ...
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... hast no amusement in thy pow- er , that can withhold thee from thy own reflections ! 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdoin avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of ...
... hast no amusement in thy pow- er , that can withhold thee from thy own reflections ! 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdoin avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of ...
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... hast been brought hither ! I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness , in which I never saw a man before . " Obidah then related the occurren ces of his journey , without any concealment or palliation . 14 " Son ...
... hast been brought hither ! I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness , in which I never saw a man before . " Obidah then related the occurren ces of his journey , without any concealment or palliation . 14 " Son ...
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... hast ordained ; what is man , that thou art mindful of him , and the son of man , that thou regardest him ! " 4 In the same manner , when I considered that infinite host of stars , or , to speak more philosophically , of suns , which ...
... hast ordained ; what is man , that thou art mindful of him , and the son of man , that thou regardest him ! " 4 In the same manner , when I considered that infinite host of stars , or , to speak more philosophically , of suns , which ...
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