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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... evil , Familiarize not yourselves with it , in the slightest instances , without fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience ; and preserve the most quick and accurate sensibility to right and wrong . If ever your ...
... evil , Familiarize not yourselves with it , in the slightest instances , without fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience ; and preserve the most quick and accurate sensibility to right and wrong . If ever your ...
Page 61
... evil befalls us is derived to us by a fatal ne- cessity , to which superior beings themselves are subject ; while others , very gravely , tell the man who is miserable , that it is necessary he should be so , to keep up the harmony of ...
... evil befalls us is derived to us by a fatal ne- cessity , to which superior beings themselves are subject ; while others , very gravely , tell the man who is miserable , that it is necessary he should be so , to keep up the harmony of ...
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... evil that shall come on my father ! " 9. Upon this relation Joseph could no longer restrain him- self . The tender ideas of his father , and his father's house , of his ancient home , his county , and his kindred , of the dis- tress of ...
... evil that shall come on my father ! " 9. Upon this relation Joseph could no longer restrain him- self . The tender ideas of his father , and his father's house , of his ancient home , his county , and his kindred , of the dis- tress of ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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