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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... few PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING . BY LINDLEY MURRAY , Author of an English Grammar , & e . & c . New York , PRINTED BY COLLINS AND CO . Mary Harts Book Presented to bver Bay Her Step Father. 1817 .
... few PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING . BY LINDLEY MURRAY , Author of an English Grammar , & e . & c . New York , PRINTED BY COLLINS AND CO . Mary Harts Book Presented to bver Bay Her Step Father. 1817 .
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... of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations Lindley Murray. Mary Harts Book Presented to bver Bay Her Step Father when in She was a young bert PREFACE . MANY selections of excellent matter have been made.
... of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations Lindley Murray. Mary Harts Book Presented to bver Bay Her Step Father when in She was a young bert PREFACE . MANY selections of excellent matter have been made.
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... Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have established our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the ...
... Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have established our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the ...
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... fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart , and with a willing mind . If thou seek him , he will be found of thee : but if thou forsake him , he will cast thee off for ever . SECTION IX . THAT every day has its pains and sorrows , is ...
... fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart , and with a willing mind . If thou seek him , he will be found of thee : but if thou forsake him , he will cast thee off for ever . SECTION IX . THAT every day has its pains and sorrows , is ...
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... Father .. Every man has his work allotted , his talent committed to him ; by the due improvement of which he may , in one way or other , serve God , promote virtue , and be useful in the world . The love of praise should be preserved ...
... Father .. Every man has his work allotted , his talent committed to him ; by the due improvement of which he may , in one way or other , serve God , promote virtue , and be useful in the world . The love of praise should be preserved ...
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