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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... shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your pursuits . To maintain a steady and unbroken mind , amidst all the shocks of the world , marks a great and noble spirit . Patience , by ...
... shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your pursuits . To maintain a steady and unbroken mind , amidst all the shocks of the world , marks a great and noble spirit . Patience , by ...
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... shade it will bear . Many men mistake the love , for the practice , of virtue ; and are not so much good men , as the friends of goodness . Genuine virtue has a language that speaks to every heart throughout the world . It is a language ...
... shade it will bear . Many men mistake the love , for the practice , of virtue ; and are not so much good men , as the friends of goodness . Genuine virtue has a language that speaks to every heart throughout the world . It is a language ...
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... shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before him . " Ortogrul , " said the old man , " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the opposite ...
... shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before him . " Ortogrul , " said the old man , " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the opposite ...
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... shaded with aurels and other ever - greens , and the effulgence which beamed from the face of Science seemed to shed ... shades of evening stretched over the landscape . I hastened homeward ; and resigned the night to silence and ...
... shaded with aurels and other ever - greens , and the effulgence which beamed from the face of Science seemed to shed ... shades of evening stretched over the landscape . I hastened homeward ; and resigned the night to silence and ...
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... shades as a sign of invitation ; he entered it , and found the coolness and verdure irresistibly pleasantHe did not ... shade ; and sometimes amused himself with plucking the flowers that covered the banks on either side , or the fruits ...
... shades as a sign of invitation ; he entered it , and found the coolness and verdure irresistibly pleasantHe did not ... shade ; and sometimes amused himself with plucking the flowers that covered the banks on either side , or the fruits ...
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