The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingM'Carty & Davis, 1826 - 316 Seiten |
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... rise to cravings which are never satisfied ; nourishes a sickly , effeminate delicacy , which sours and corrupts every pleasure . SECTION VI . We have seen the husbandman scattering his 10 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... rise to cravings which are never satisfied ; nourishes a sickly , effeminate delicacy , which sours and corrupts every pleasure . SECTION VI . We have seen the husbandman scattering his 10 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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... rise in the morning of youth , full of vigour and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope , with gaiety and with diligence , and travel on awhile in the direct road of piety towards the mansions of rest . In a short ...
... rise in the morning of youth , full of vigour and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope , with gaiety and with diligence , and travel on awhile in the direct road of piety towards the mansions of rest . In a short ...
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... rise above one another by several different degrees of per- fection . For to return to our statue in the block of marble , we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped , sometimes rough - hewn , and but just sketched into a numan figure ...
... rise above one another by several different degrees of per- fection . For to return to our statue in the block of marble , we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped , sometimes rough - hewn , and but just sketched into a numan figure ...
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... rise , and no winds to blow , as that our life were long to proceed , without receiving provocations from human frailty . The careless and the imprudent , the giddy and the fickle , the ungrate- ful and the interested , every where meet ...
... rise , and no winds to blow , as that our life were long to proceed , without receiving provocations from human frailty . The careless and the imprudent , the giddy and the fickle , the ungrate- ful and the interested , every where meet ...
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... rise from those narrow conceptions , which we are apt to entertain of the Divine Nature . We ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time . If we are careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect ...
... rise from those narrow conceptions , which we are apt to entertain of the Divine Nature . We ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time . If we are careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect ...
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Adherbal Alexander Selkirk amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comforts death Democritus Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyments envy eternal ev'ry evil father favour feel folly fortune friendship gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Hephaestion Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfection persons philosopher pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit stancy temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words young youth