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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... Sicily , was far from being happy , though he possessed great riches , and all the pleasures which wealth and power could procure . Damocles , one of his flatterers , deceived by these spe- cious appearances of happiness , took occasion ...
... Sicily , was far from being happy , though he possessed great riches , and all the pleasures which wealth and power could procure . Damocles , one of his flatterers , deceived by these spe- cious appearances of happiness , took occasion ...
Page 74
... Sicily , but its motion was perceived in Germany , France , and England . It extended to a circumter . ence of two thousand six hundred leagues ; chiefly affecting the sea - coasts and great rivers ; more per- ceivable also upon the ...
... Sicily , but its motion was perceived in Germany , France , and England . It extended to a circumter . ence of two thousand six hundred leagues ; chiefly affecting the sea - coasts and great rivers ; more per- ceivable also upon the ...
Page 75
... Sicily perished in the ruins . Catanea , to which city the describer travelling , seemed the prin cipal scene of ruin ; its place only was to be found ; and not a footstep of its former magnificence was to be seen remaining . GOLDSMITH ...
... Sicily perished in the ruins . Catanea , to which city the describer travelling , seemed the prin cipal scene of ruin ; its place only was to be found ; and not a footstep of its former magnificence was to be seen remaining . GOLDSMITH ...
Page 115
... Sicily . If that sentence is passed upon him which his crimes deserve , your authority , Fathers , will be venerable and sacred in the eyes of the public : but if his great riches should bias you in his favor , I shall still gain one ...
... Sicily . If that sentence is passed upon him which his crimes deserve , your authority , Fathers , will be venerable and sacred in the eyes of the public : but if his great riches should bias you in his favor , I shall still gain one ...
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... Sicily crowns all his works of wickedness ; and finishes a lasting monument to his infamy . The mis- chiefs done by ... Sicilians neither enjoy- ed the protection of their own original laws ; of the regulations made for their benefit by ...
... Sicily crowns all his works of wickedness ; and finishes a lasting monument to his infamy . The mis- chiefs done by ... Sicilians neither enjoy- ed the protection of their own original laws ; of the regulations made for their benefit by ...
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