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 xxxviii
... honour of man , • • 172 • 174 .. 176 179 13. The influence of devotion on the happiness of life , 181 14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered , . 15. On the power of custom , and the uses to which it 183 may be ...
... honour of man , • • 172 • 174 .. 176 179 13. The influence of devotion on the happiness of life , 181 14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered , . 15. On the power of custom , and the uses to which it 183 may be ...
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... honour , & c . " - " The ends proposed by this respectable author , have , we hope , been accomplished to his atmost wish ; for public approbation has crowned his labours . " Guardian of Education , July , 1803 . THE ENGLISH READER ...
... honour , & c . " - " The ends proposed by this respectable author , have , we hope , been accomplished to his atmost wish ; for public approbation has crowned his labours . " Guardian of Education , July , 1803 . THE ENGLISH READER ...
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... honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her paths are peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like precious ointment- Like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended upon ...
... honour . Her ways are ways of pleasantness , and all her paths are peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like precious ointment- Like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended upon ...
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... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO . Change of external condition often adverse to virtue . who IN the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent ...
... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO . Change of external condition often adverse to virtue . who IN the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent ...
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... a very wicked minister . Raised to greatness without merit , he employed his power solely for the gratification of his passions . As the honours which he On this possessed were next to royal , his pride 24 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... a very wicked minister . Raised to greatness without merit , he employed his power solely for the gratification of his passions . As the honours which he On this possessed were next to royal , his pride 24 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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