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 ReadingM. Bartgis, 1819 - 252 pages |
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Page 93
... never shows us a smiling countenance , while he meditates evil against us in his heart . He never praises us among our friends ; and then joins in traducing us among our enemies . We shall never find one part of his character at ...
... never shows us a smiling countenance , while he meditates evil against us in his heart . He never praises us among our friends ; and then joins in traducing us among our enemies . We shall never find one part of his character at ...
Page 160
... never fail to corrupt them . For , such as they are , they are at no time possessed unmix- ed . To human lips it is not given to taste the cup of pure joy . When external circumstances show fairest to the world the envied man groans in ...
... never fail to corrupt them . For , such as they are , they are at no time possessed unmix- ed . To human lips it is not given to taste the cup of pure joy . When external circumstances show fairest to the world the envied man groans in ...
Page 253
... never made an independent man ' Twould jar the concord of his general plan . See every part of that stupendous whole , " Whose body nature is , and God the soul ; " To one great end the general good conspire , From matter , brute , to ...
... never made an independent man ' Twould jar the concord of his general plan . See every part of that stupendous whole , " Whose body nature is , and God the soul ; " To one great end the general good conspire , From matter , brute , to ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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