The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best WritersCollins and Company, 1832 - 252 sider |
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... honour- able occupations of youth . 3 Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess , vir- tue is requisite , in order to their shining with proper lustre . Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing ...
... honour- able occupations of youth . 3 Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess , vir- tue is requisite , in order to their shining with proper lustre . Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing ...
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... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO . Change of external condition is often adverse to virtue IN the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent , and ...
... honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . SECTION II . CICERO . Change of external condition is often adverse to virtue IN the days of Joram , king of Israel , flourished the prophet Elisha . His character was so eminent , and ...
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... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this gene ...
... honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts ; and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this gene ...
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... honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
... honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
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... honour , than where religion and morality are concerned . In times of prevailing licentiousness , to maintain unblemished virtue , and uncorrupted integrity in a public or a private cause ; to stand firm by what is fair and just ...
... honour , than where religion and morality are concerned . In times of prevailing licentiousness , to maintain unblemished virtue , and uncorrupted integrity in a public or a private cause ; to stand firm by what is fair and just ...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ... Lindley Murray Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1829 |
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character Charybdis comfort death delight distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father favour feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passed passions pause peace perfect person pleasing pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter reading reign religion render rest rich rise Roman Roman Senate scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit tears temper tempest thee things thought tion treache truth Tuning sweet vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth