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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... earnest discourse . And the reason that they have not the same use of them , in reading aloud the sentiments of others , may be traced to the very defective and erro- neous method in which the art of reading is taught χχίν . INTRODUCTION .
... earnest discourse . And the reason that they have not the same use of them , in reading aloud the sentiments of others , may be traced to the very defective and erro- neous method in which the art of reading is taught χχίν . INTRODUCTION .
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... reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have established our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the ...
... reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have established our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the ...
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... reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour every object . object . By the torms which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it generally brings , on the passionate and ...
... reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour every object . object . By the torms which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it generally brings , on the passionate and ...
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... reason to be , that our pleasure is all derived from an opposite quarter . How strangely are the opinions of men altered , by a change in their condition ! How many have had reason to be thankful , for being disappointed in designs ...
... reason to be , that our pleasure is all derived from an opposite quarter . How strangely are the opinions of men altered , by a change in their condition ! How many have had reason to be thankful , for being disappointed in designs ...
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... reason of the cold ; he shall therefore beg in harvest , and have nothing . I went by the field of the slothful , and by the vine- yard of the man void of understanding : and lo ! it was all grown over with thorns ; nettles had covered ...
... reason of the cold ; he shall therefore beg in harvest , and have nothing . I went by the field of the slothful , and by the vine- yard of the man void of understanding : and lo ! it was all grown over with thorns ; nettles had covered ...
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