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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... blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first stady to ...
... blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first stady to ...
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... blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the burden and nuisance of society ! The most common propensity of mankind , is to store futurity with whatever is agreeable to them ; es- pecially in those periods of life , when ...
... blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the burden and nuisance of society ! The most common propensity of mankind , is to store futurity with whatever is agreeable to them ; es- pecially in those periods of life , when ...
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... blessing , to be born in those parts of the world , where wisdom and knowl- edge flourish ; though it must be confessed there are , even in these parts , several poor uninstructed persons , who are but little above the inhabitants of ...
... blessing , to be born in those parts of the world , where wisdom and knowl- edge flourish ; though it must be confessed there are , even in these parts , several poor uninstructed persons , who are but little above the inhabitants of ...
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... blessing of health , and always observed the rules of vir- tue and sobriety ? Has he been moderate in his life , and temperate in all his pleasures ? If now he is on- ly paying the price of his former , perhaps his forgotten indulgences ...
... blessing of health , and always observed the rules of vir- tue and sobriety ? Has he been moderate in his life , and temperate in all his pleasures ? If now he is on- ly paying the price of his former , perhaps his forgotten indulgences ...
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... blessing ; and in their adversity , they impute their dis- tresses to his providence , not to their own misbehav- iour . Whereas , the truth is the very reverse of this . " Every good and perfect gift cometh from above ; ” and of evil ...
... blessing ; and in their adversity , they impute their dis- tresses to his providence , not to their own misbehav- iour . Whereas , the truth is the very reverse of this . " Every good and perfect gift cometh from above ; ” and of evil ...
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Page 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.