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 pagini |
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Pagina 61
... means sufficient to relieve it . They rather give despair than consolation . In a word , a man might reply to one of these comforters , as Augustus did to his friend , who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he ...
... means sufficient to relieve it . They rather give despair than consolation . In a word , a man might reply to one of these comforters , as Augustus did to his friend , who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he ...
Pagina 79
... mean a purpose ? Can he delight in the production of such abortive intelligences , such short - lived reasonable ... means preserves his distance and superiority in the scale of being ; but he knows that , how high soever the station ...
... mean a purpose ? Can he delight in the production of such abortive intelligences , such short - lived reasonable ... means preserves his distance and superiority in the scale of being ; but he knows that , how high soever the station ...
Pagina 126
... means by popularity , that applause bestowed by after ages on good and virtuous actions , I have long been struggling in that race ; to what purpose , all - trying time can alone determine . 15. But if the noble lord means that mushroom ...
... means by popularity , that applause bestowed by after ages on good and virtuous actions , I have long been struggling in that race ; to what purpose , all - trying time can alone determine . 15. But if the noble lord means that mushroom ...
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Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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