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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... soul is rendered the resceptacle of many repug- nant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
... soul is rendered the resceptacle of many repug- nant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
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... soul . SECTION X. WHENCE arises the misery of this present world ? It is not owing to our cloudy atmosphere , our changing seasons , and inclement skies . It is not owing to the debility of our bodies , or to the unequal distribution of ...
... soul . SECTION X. WHENCE arises the misery of this present world ? It is not owing to our cloudy atmosphere , our changing seasons , and inclement skies . It is not owing to the debility of our bodies , or to the unequal distribution of ...
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... soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post : to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to ...
... soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post : to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to ...
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... soul of Hazael abhorred , at this time , the thoughts of cruelty . Uncorrupted , as yet , by ambition or greatness , his indignation rose at being thought capable of the savage actions which the prophet had mentioned ; and , with much ...
... soul of Hazael abhorred , at this time , the thoughts of cruelty . Uncorrupted , as yet , by ambition or greatness , his indignation rose at being thought capable of the savage actions which the prophet had mentioned ; and , with much ...
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... soul was shaken with a storm of passion . Wrath , pride , and desire of revenge , rose into fury . With difficulty he restrain- ed himself in public ; but as soon as he came to his own house , he was forced to disclose the agony of his ...
... soul was shaken with a storm of passion . Wrath , pride , and desire of revenge , rose into fury . With difficulty he restrain- ed himself in public ; but as soon as he came to his own house , he was forced to disclose the agony of his ...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected From the Best ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2016 |
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