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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... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manuer 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 manuer 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 ...
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... truth , no censure from others can make them wrong . " 66 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 crimes ...
... truth , no censure from others can make them wrong . " 66 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 crimes ...
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... English Exercises , under the head of Punctuation , will afford the learner additional scope for im- proving himself , in reading sentences and paragraphs vari- ously constructed . Sincerity and truth form the basis of every virtue .
... English Exercises , under the head of Punctuation , will afford the learner additional scope for im- proving himself , in reading sentences and paragraphs vari- ously constructed . Sincerity and truth form the basis of every virtue .
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... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often 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 ...
... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often 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 ...
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... truth and delica- cy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , 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 ...
... truth and delica- cy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , 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 ...
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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.