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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... consider ourselves as reading to them . We naturally and me- chanically utter our words with such a degree of strength as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we address , provided he is within reach of our voice . As this is ...
... consider ourselves as reading to them . We naturally and me- chanically utter our words with such a degree of strength as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we address , provided he is within reach of our voice . As this is ...
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... Consider your- selves not only as sensitive , but as rational beings ; not only as rational , but social ; not only as social , but immortal . Art thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industri- ous , peaceable and contented . Art thou ...
... Consider your- selves not only as sensitive , but as rational beings ; not only as rational , but social ; not only as social , but immortal . Art thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industri- ous , peaceable and contented . Art thou ...
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... consider , that though this may be sport to you , it is death to us . " Sully , the great statesman of France , always retained at his table , in his most prosperous days , the same frugality to which he had been accustomed in early ...
... consider , that though this may be sport to you , it is death to us . " Sully , the great statesman of France , always retained at his table , in his most prosperous days , the same frugality to which he had been accustomed in early ...
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... consider as reprobates . No one ought to consider himself as insignificant in the sight of his Creator . In our several stations , we are all sent forth to be laborers in the vineyard of our heavenly Father . Every man has his work ...
... consider as reprobates . No one ought to consider himself as insignificant in the sight of his Creator . In our several stations , we are all sent forth to be laborers in the vineyard of our heavenly Father . Every man has his work ...
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... consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to pursue the new path , which he sup ...
... consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to pursue the new path , which he sup ...
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