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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... king Edward VI . she had received all her education with him , and seemed even to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and ciassical literature . She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and Greek languages , as ...
... king Edward VI . she had received all her education with him , and seemed even to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and ciassical literature . She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and Greek languages , as ...
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... kings in India ; and some- times resolved to dig for diamonds in the mines of Golconda . One day , after some hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a ...
... kings in India ; and some- times resolved to dig for diamonds in the mines of Golconda . One day , after some hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a ...
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... king of Lydia , he thanked him for his kindness ; but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with In short , content is equivalent to wealth , and luxury to poverty ; or , to give the thought a more agreeable turn ...
... king of Lydia , he thanked him for his kindness ; but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with In short , content is equivalent to wealth , and luxury to poverty ; or , to give the thought a more agreeable turn ...
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... King of England . THE merit of this prince , both in private and in pub- lic life , may , with advantage , be set in opposition to that of any monarch or citizen , which the annals of any age , or any nation , can present to us . He ...
... King of England . THE merit of this prince , both in private and in pub- lic life , may , with advantage , be set in opposition to that of any monarch or citizen , which the annals of any age , or any nation , can present to us . He ...
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... king himself went to the House of Lords , and spoke for some time in his defence ; but the spirit of vengeance , which had been chained for eleven years , was now roused ; and nothing but his blood could J 2 ( 89 ) CHAPTER VI. ...
... king himself went to the House of Lords , and spoke for some time in his defence ; but the spirit of vengeance , which had been chained for eleven years , was now roused ; and nothing but his blood could J 2 ( 89 ) CHAPTER VI. ...
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