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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Page 41
... perfection , which , without such helps , are never able to make their appearance . If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him , I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education ...
... perfection , which , without such helps , are never able to make their appearance . If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him , I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education ...
Page 53
... perfection of understanding , is impossible : he makes the nearest approaches to it , who has the sense to discern , and the humility to acknow- ledge , its imperfections . Modesty always sits gracefully upon youth ; it covers a ...
... perfection of understanding , is impossible : he makes the nearest approaches to it , who has the sense to discern , and the humility to acknow- ledge , its imperfections . Modesty always sits gracefully upon youth ; it covers a ...
Page 81
... perfection , without a possibility of ever arriving at it : which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others , who have written on this subject , though it seems to me to carry a very great weight with ...
... perfection , without a possibility of ever arriving at it : which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others , who have written on this subject , though it seems to me to carry a very great weight with ...
Page 82
... perfection of his nature , before he is hurried off the stage . Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean a purpose ? Can he delight in the production of such abortive intelligences , such short - lived ...
... perfection of his nature , before he is hurried off the stage . Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean a purpose ? Can he delight in the production of such abortive intelligences , such short - lived ...
Page 83
... perfection as much as she now falls short of it . It is true , the higher nature still advances , and by that means preserves his distance and superiority in the scale of being ; but he knows that how high soever the station is of which ...
... perfection as much as she now falls short of it . It is true , the higher nature still advances , and by that means preserves his distance and superiority in the scale of being ; but he knows that how high soever the station is of which ...
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