The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best WritersCollins and Company, 1832 - 252 pagini |
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Pagina 4
... less compass , NOTE . - For many of the observations contained in this preliminary tract , the autho Is indebted to the writings of Dr. Blair , and to the Encyclopedia Britannica . r voice b fore we have done . We shall INTRODUCTION .
... less compass , NOTE . - For many of the observations contained in this preliminary tract , the autho Is indebted to the writings of Dr. Blair , and to the Encyclopedia Britannica . r voice b fore we have done . We shall INTRODUCTION .
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... less degree of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it : but its applica ion is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on words ...
... less degree of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it : but its applica ion is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on words ...
Pagina 19
... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ? What ...
... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ? What ...
Pagina 20
... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their . persons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their . persons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
Pagina 27
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ...
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ...
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