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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Page 58
... GREATER THAN THOSE OF VIRTUE . 1. THOUGH no condition of human life is free from uneasi- ness , yet it must be allowed , that the uneasiness belonging to a sinful course , is far greater than what attends a course of well - doing . If ...
... GREATER THAN THOSE OF VIRTUE . 1. THOUGH no condition of human life is free from uneasi- ness , yet it must be allowed , that the uneasiness belonging to a sinful course , is far greater than what attends a course of well - doing . If ...
Page 60
... greater misfortunes which might have befallen him . Το 12. I like the story of the honest Dutchman , who , upon breaking his leg by a fall from the main - mast , told the stand- ers by , it was a great mercy that it was not his neck ...
... greater misfortunes which might have befallen him . Το 12. I like the story of the honest Dutchman , who , upon breaking his leg by a fall from the main - mast , told the stand- ers by , it was a great mercy that it was not his neck ...
Page 143
... greater part of man- kind in a good measure , precludes them . But , in the ordi- nary round of human affairs , many occasions daily present themselves of mitigating the vexations which others suffer ; of soothing their minds ; of ...
... greater part of man- kind in a good measure , precludes them . But , in the ordi- nary round of human affairs , many occasions daily present themselves of mitigating the vexations which others suffer ; of soothing their minds ; of ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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