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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... wisdom , 8. On the importance of order in the atribution of our time , 9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples , 10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of vir- tue , 11. On contentment , 12. Rank and riches afford no ...
... wisdom , 8. On the importance of order in the atribution of our time , 9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples , 10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of vir- tue , 11. On contentment , 12. Rank and riches afford no ...
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... a reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal 4 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... a reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal 4 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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... wisdom . Length of days is in her right - hand ; and in her left - hand , riches and 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 ...
... wisdom . Length of days is in her right - hand ; and in her left - hand , riches and 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 ...
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... wisdom and virtue rendered her a shining example to her sex . But it was her lot to continue only a short period on this stage of being ; for , in early life , she fell a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the fluke of Northumberland ...
... wisdom and virtue rendered her a shining example to her sex . But it was her lot to continue only a short period on this stage of being ; for , in early life , she fell a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the fluke of Northumberland ...
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... wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness , who lives with his own faults and follies always ...
... wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness , who lives with his own faults and follies always ...
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