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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... common nature of which we all participate ? 6. Again I must have food and clothing . Without a pro- per genial warmth , I instantly perish . Am I not related , in this view , to the very earth itself ? to the distant sun , from whose ...
... common nature of which we all participate ? 6. Again I must have food and clothing . Without a pro- per genial warmth , I instantly perish . Am I not related , in this view , to the very earth itself ? to the distant sun , from whose ...
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... common air , and common use Of their own limbs ! How many drink the cup Of baleful grief , or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierced by wintry winds , How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty ! How many shake With ...
... common air , and common use Of their own limbs ! How many drink the cup Of baleful grief , or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierced by wintry winds , How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty ! How many shake With ...
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... common sense , and common ease . Remember , man , " the universal cause Acts not by partial , but by gen'rał laws ; " And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one , but all . SECTION IV . THE GOODNESS OF ...
... common sense , and common ease . Remember , man , " the universal cause Acts not by partial , but by gen'rał laws ; " And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one , but all . SECTION IV . THE GOODNESS OF ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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