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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... desires , if no part of it be suffered to lie waste by neg- ligence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out ... desire to preserve his mind free and tranquil . Eminently pleasing and honorable was the friendship be- tween David ...
... desires , if no part of it be suffered to lie waste by neg- ligence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out ... desire to preserve his mind free and tranquil . Eminently pleasing and honorable was the friendship be- tween David ...
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... desire . If we allow any passion , even though it be esteemed innocent , to acquire an absolute ascendant , our ... desires , are the instruments of 30 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
... desire . If we allow any passion , even though it be esteemed innocent , to acquire an absolute ascendant , our ... desires , are the instruments of 30 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
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... Desires and wishes are the first springs of action . When they become exorbitant , the whole character is likely to be ... desire . 7. You have strayed , my friends , from the road which conducts to felicity ; you have dishonoured the ...
... Desires and wishes are the first springs of action . When they become exorbitant , the whole character is likely to be ... desire . 7. You have strayed , my friends , from the road which conducts to felicity ; you have dishonoured the ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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