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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... not repeating them too frequently . For as they excite uncommon attention , and of course raise expectation , if the importance of the matter be " not fully answerable to such expectation , they occasion xxvi . INTRODUCTION .
... not repeating them too frequently . For as they excite uncommon attention , and of course raise expectation , if the importance of the matter be " not fully answerable to such expectation , they occasion xxvi . INTRODUCTION .
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... course of time , all that had been predicted came to pass . Hazael ascended the throne , and ambition took possession of his heart . " He smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . " He oppressed them during all the days of king ...
... course of time , all that had been predicted came to pass . Hazael ascended the throne , and ambition took possession of his heart . " He smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . " He oppressed them during all the days of king ...
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... course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees , and watered a large region with innumerable circumvolutions . In these amuse- ments , the hours passed away unaccounted ; his deviations had perplexed his memory , and he knew not ...
... course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees , and watered a large region with innumerable circumvolutions . In these amuse- ments , the hours passed away unaccounted ; his deviations had perplexed his memory , and he knew not ...
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... course cannot be foreseen ; and he seldom fails of suffering most from their poisonous effect , who first allowed them to flow . BLAIR . SECTION V. Asuspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor . As a suspicious spirit is the ...
... course cannot be foreseen ; and he seldom fails of suffering most from their poisonous effect , who first allowed them to flow . BLAIR . SECTION V. Asuspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor . As a suspicious spirit is the ...
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... course , is far greater than what attends a course of well - doing . If we are weary of the labours of virtue , we may be assured that the world , whenever we try the exchange , will lay upon us a much heavier bad . It is the outside ...
... course , is far greater than what attends a course of well - doing . If we are weary of the labours of virtue , we may be assured that the world , whenever we try the exchange , will lay upon us a much heavier bad . It is the outside ...
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