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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... equal age , with king Edward VI . she had received all her education with him , and seemed éven to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and classical literature . She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and ...
... equal age , with king Edward VI . she had received all her education with him , and seemed éven to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and classical literature . She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and ...
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... equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier ; to which he invited all the ministers of pleasure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Leisure soon made hen weary of himself , and he longed ...
... equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier ; to which he invited all the ministers of pleasure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Leisure soon made hen weary of himself , and he longed ...
Page 34
... equal and uninterrupted steadiness : for , beside the difficulties of the way , they were continually solicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , passions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with ...
... equal and uninterrupted steadiness : for , beside the difficulties of the way , they were continually solicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , passions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with ...
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... equal to the torment he creates to himself , by means of the fierce and desperate passions which he allows to rage in his soul . ) Those evil spirits who inhabit the regions of misery , are represented as delighting in revenge and ...
... equal to the torment he creates to himself , by means of the fierce and desperate passions which he allows to rage in his soul . ) Those evil spirits who inhabit the regions of misery , are represented as delighting in revenge and ...
Page 88
... equal nor imitate . Upon being informed by him that the place was full of these beautiful incrustations , I ventured in once more with him , about fifty paces , anxiously and cautiously descending , by a steep and dangerous way Finding ...
... equal nor imitate . Upon being informed by him that the place was full of these beautiful incrustations , I ventured in once more with him , about fifty paces , anxiously and cautiously descending , by a steep and dangerous way Finding ...
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