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 xxxviii
... Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ on his disciples , in his ser- mon on the mount , • 10. Schemes of life often illusory , 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 12. On the true honour of man ...
... Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ on his disciples , in his ser- mon on the mount , • 10. Schemes of life often illusory , 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 12. On the true honour of man ...
Page xl
... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter , • 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation , 9. On procrastination , 248 · · 249 250 10. That philosophy , which stops at secondary causes , 11. Indignant sentiments on ...
... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter , • 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation , 9. On procrastination , 248 · · 249 250 10. That philosophy , which stops at secondary causes , 11. Indignant sentiments on ...
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... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal 4 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal 4 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly ...
... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly ...
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... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ...
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ...
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