The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments and to Inculate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue, with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... subject ; and establish a habit of readily discovering the mean- ng , force , and beauty of what they pcrule . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE CHAPTER I. SELECT SENTENCES AND 12 INTRODUCTION . On the true honour of man, On the slavery of vice,
... subject ; and establish a habit of readily discovering the mean- ng , force , and beauty of what they pcrule . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE CHAPTER I. SELECT SENTENCES AND 12 INTRODUCTION . On the true honour of man, On the slavery of vice,
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... honour- able occupations of youth . Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess , vir . tue is requisite , in order to their shining with proper lustre . Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood ...
... honour- able occupations of youth . Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess , vir . tue is requisite , in order to their shining with proper lustre . Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood ...
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... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO Change of external condition is often adverse to virtue . IN the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent , and ...
... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO Change of external condition is often adverse to virtue . IN the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent , and ...
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... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this gene ...
... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this gene ...
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... honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
... honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
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