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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... sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and effect . A selection of ...
... sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and effect . A selection of ...
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... sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and effect . A selection of ...
... sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and effect . A selection of ...
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... sentence , with reference to something said before , presupposed by the author as general knowledge , or removes an ambiguity , where a passage may have more senses than one . The inferior emphasis enforces , graces , and enlivens , but ...
... sentence , with reference to something said before , presupposed by the author as general knowledge , or removes an ambiguity , where a passage may have more senses than one . The inferior emphasis enforces , graces , and enlivens , but ...
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... sentence , so it is frequently required to be continued , with a little variation , on two , and sometimes more words together . The following sentences exemplify both the By modulation is meant , that pleasing variety of voice , wich ...
... sentence , so it is frequently required to be continued , with a little variation , on two , and sometimes more words together . The following sentences exemplify both the By modulation is meant , that pleasing variety of voice , wich ...
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... sentences are so full and comprehensive , that almost every word is emphatical : as , " Ye hills and dales , ye rivers ... sentence with emphatical words , is like crowd- ing all the pages of a book with Italic characters : which , as to ...
... sentences are so full and comprehensive , that almost every word is emphatical : as , " Ye hills and dales , ye rivers ... sentence with emphatical words , is like crowd- ing all the pages of a book with Italic characters : which , as to ...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected From the Best ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2016 |
The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected From the Best ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2017 |
The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, From the Best Writers ... Lindley 1745-1826 1n Murray No preview available - 2021 |
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