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 ReadingIsaac Collins and Son, 1802 - 366 sider |
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Side x
... confi- der ourfelves as reading to them . We naturally and me- chanically utter our words with fuch a degree of ftrength , as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we ad- drefs , provided he is within the reach of our voice . As ...
... confi- der ourfelves as reading to them . We naturally and me- chanically utter our words with fuch a degree of ftrength , as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we ad- drefs , provided he is within the reach of our voice . As ...
Side 13
... Confi- der yourselves not only as fenfitive , but as rational beings ; not only as rational , but focial ; not only as focial , but immortal Art thou poor Show thyfelf active and in- Art thou duftrious , peaceable and contented ...
... Confi- der yourselves not only as fenfitive , but as rational beings ; not only as rational , but focial ; not only as focial , but immortal Art thou poor Show thyfelf active and in- Art thou duftrious , peaceable and contented ...
Side 20
... confider as reprobates . No one ought to confider himfelf as infignifi cant in the fight of his Creator . In our feveral ftations , we are all fent forth to be labourers in the vineyard of our heavenly Father . Every man has his work ...
... confider as reprobates . No one ought to confider himfelf as infignifi cant in the fight of his Creator . In our feveral ftations , we are all fent forth to be labourers in the vineyard of our heavenly Father . Every man has his work ...
Side 45
... confider whether it were longer fafe to forfake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greateft violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he refolved to pursue the new path , which he ...
... confider whether it were longer fafe to forfake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greateft violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he refolved to pursue the new path , which he ...
Side 52
... confider forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others . Common failings are the ftrongeft leffon of mutual forbearance . Were this virtue unknown among men , order and comfort , peace and repofe , would be ftrangers to human life ...
... confider forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others . Common failings are the ftrongeft leffon of mutual forbearance . Were this virtue unknown among men , order and comfort , peace and repofe , would be ftrangers to human life ...
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