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 12
... scenes of heartfelt satisfaction suc- ceed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent intention appear every - where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ...
... scenes of heartfelt satisfaction suc- ceed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent intention appear every - where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ...
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... scenes of sore distress , which are passing at that moment throughout the world ! multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and the children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that ...
... scenes of sore distress , which are passing at that moment throughout the world ! multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and the children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that ...
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... that constancy , which their approaching end required of them . - Their separation , she said . wonid bony for a moment ; and they would soon rejou.ch other in a scene , where their affections would be 128 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... that constancy , which their approaching end required of them . - Their separation , she said . wonid bony for a moment ; and they would soon rejou.ch other in a scene , where their affections would be 128 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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... scene , where their affections would be for ever united ; and where death , disappointment , and misfortunes , could no longer have access to them , or disturb their eternal felicity . It had been intended to execute the lady Jane and ...
... scene , where their affections would be for ever united ; and where death , disappointment , and misfortunes , could no longer have access to them , or disturb their eternal felicity . It had been intended to execute the lady Jane and ...
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... scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure . Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness ...
... scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure . Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness ...
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