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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... soul , CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES . SCT . 1. The seasons ,. 50 ка 54 55 59 63 889 60 65 70 70 72 73 77 80 84 2. The cataract of Niagara , in Capada , North America , 85 3. The grotto of Antiparos , 4. The grotto of Antiparos ...
... soul , CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES . SCT . 1. The seasons ,. 50 ка 54 55 59 63 889 60 65 70 70 72 73 77 80 84 2. The cataract of Niagara , in Capada , North America , 85 3. The grotto of Antiparos , 4. The grotto of Antiparos ...
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... soul is rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
... soul is rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
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... a sort of natural affinity they connect and entwine themselves together ; till their roots come to be spread wide and deep over all the soul . SECTION X. WHENCE arises the misery of this present world 18 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... a sort of natural affinity they connect and entwine themselves together ; till their roots come to be spread wide and deep over all the soul . SECTION X. WHENCE arises the misery of this present world 18 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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... soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to ...
... soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to ...
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... soul of Hazael abhorred , at this time , the thoughts of cruelty . Uncorrupted , as yet , by ambition or greatness , his indignation rose at being thought capable of the savage actions which the prophet had mentioned ; and , with much ...
... soul of Hazael abhorred , at this time , the thoughts of cruelty . Uncorrupted , as yet , by ambition or greatness , his indignation rose at being thought capable of the savage actions which the prophet had mentioned ; and , with much ...
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