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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... comfort the af- flicted , are duties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives . " " " Those evil spirits , who , by long custom , have contracted in the body habits of lust , and sensuality ; malice , and revenge : an aversion ...
... comfort the af- flicted , are duties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives . " " " Those evil spirits , who , by long custom , have contracted in the body habits of lust , and sensuality ; malice , and revenge : an aversion ...
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... comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , to one who has lost ...
... comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , to one who has lost ...
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... forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others . Common failings are the strongest lesson of mutual forbearance . Were this virtue unknown among men , order and comfort , peace and repose 36 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others . Common failings are the strongest lesson of mutual forbearance . Were this virtue unknown among men , order and comfort , peace and repose 36 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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... comfort , peace and repose , would be strangers to human life . Injuries retaliated accord- ing to the exhorbitant measure which passion prescribes , would excite resentment in return . The ' injured per- son would become the injurer ...
... comfort , peace and repose , would be strangers to human life . Injuries retaliated accord- ing to the exhorbitant measure which passion prescribes , would excite resentment in return . The ' injured per- son would become the injurer ...
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... comfort in those whom he possesses , Believing others to be his enemies , he will of course make them suct . Let his eaution be ever so great , the asperity of his thoughts will often break out in his behaviour ; and in return for ...
... comfort in those whom he possesses , Believing others to be his enemies , he will of course make them suct . Let his eaution be ever so great , the asperity of his thoughts will often break out in his behaviour ; and in return for ...
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