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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... fear discrediting our judgment , by recom- mending to all sects and degrees of people , this portable volume ; which , though professedly compiled for the instruction of youth , will not be found unuseful to persons of riper years ...
... fear discrediting our judgment , by recom- mending to all sects and degrees of people , this portable volume ; which , though professedly compiled for the instruction of youth , will not be found unuseful to persons of riper years ...
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... fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admoni- tions of conscience .. SECTION IV . TIME once past never returns : the ...
... fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admoni- tions of conscience .. SECTION IV . TIME once past never returns : the ...
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... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience , and preserve the most quick and accurate sensibility to right and wrong . If ever your moral impressions begin to decay , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to lessen ...
... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience , and preserve the most quick and accurate sensibility to right and wrong . If ever your moral impressions begin to decay , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to lessen ...
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... in motion , and on every hand were heard the mingled howls of rage and fear , and ravage and expiration . All the horrors of darkness and solitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and 88 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... in motion , and on every hand were heard the mingled howls of rage and fear , and ravage and expiration . All the horrors of darkness and solitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and 88 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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... fear , but labour , began to overcome him ; his breath grew short , and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate , when he beheld , through the brambles , the glimmer of a taper . He advanced ...
... fear , but labour , began to overcome him ; his breath grew short , and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate , when he beheld , through the brambles , the glimmer of a taper . He advanced ...
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