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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 pages |
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... equal age , with king Edward VI . she had received all her education with him , and seemed even to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and ciassical literature . She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and ...
... equal age , with king Edward VI . she had received all her education with him , and seemed even to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and ciassical literature . She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and ...
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... equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier ; to which he invited all the ministers of pleas- ure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Leisure soon made him weary of himself , and he ...
... equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier ; to which he invited all the ministers of pleas- ure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Leisure soon made him weary of himself , and he ...
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... equal and uninterrupted steadiness : for , beside the diffi- culties of the way , they were continually solicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , pas- sions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied ...
... equal and uninterrupted steadiness : for , beside the diffi- culties of the way , they were continually solicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , pas- sions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied ...
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... equal to the torment he creates to himself , by means of the fierce and desperate passions which he allows to rage in his soul . 99 Those evil spirits who inhabit the regions of misery , are represented as delighting in revenge and ...
... equal to the torment he creates to himself , by means of the fierce and desperate passions which he allows to rage in his soul . 99 Those evil spirits who inhabit the regions of misery , are represented as delighting in revenge and ...
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... aper- ture . After continuing within it for about a quarter of an hour , he returned , bearing in his hand some beautiful pieces of white spar , which art could neither equal nor imitate The English Reader . " Part 1 .
... aper- ture . After continuing within it for about a quarter of an hour , he returned , bearing in his hand some beautiful pieces of white spar , which art could neither equal nor imitate The English Reader . " Part 1 .
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