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 xviii
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , “ Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , “ Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
Page xix
... truth , no 66 censure from others can make them wrong . " , * Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , yet not dull , " Strong , without rage ; without o'erflowing , full . " " A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy , " his ...
... truth , no 66 censure from others can make them wrong . " , * Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , yet not dull , " Strong , without rage ; without o'erflowing , full . " " A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy , " his ...
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... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in disguise . NOTE . In the first chapter , the Compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of construction , and in all the diversity of ...
... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in disguise . NOTE . In the first chapter , the Compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of construction , and in all the diversity of ...
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... 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 licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe ...
... 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 licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe ...
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... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those latent sug- gestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those latent sug- gestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
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