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 10
... look . Unlefs we could fee farther , and difcern what joy , or what bitternefs , his heart feels , we can pronounce nothing concerning him . The book is well written ; and I have perufed it with pleasure and profit . It fhows , firft ...
... look . Unlefs we could fee farther , and difcern what joy , or what bitternefs , his heart feels , we can pronounce nothing concerning him . The book is well written ; and I have perufed it with pleasure and profit . It fhows , firft ...
Side 12
... look for in this vain and uncertain world ? How little can the greatest profperity add to fuch a ftate ! Will any future fituation ever make us happy , if now , with fo few caufes of grief , we imagine ourselves miferable ? The evil ...
... look for in this vain and uncertain world ? How little can the greatest profperity add to fuch a ftate ! Will any future fituation ever make us happy , if now , with fo few caufes of grief , we imagine ourselves miferable ? The evil ...
Side 17
... look with a more impartial eye on the world , they would fee themfelves furrounded with fufferers ; and find that they are only drinking out of that mixed cup , which Providence has prepared for all.- " I will restore thy daughter again ...
... look with a more impartial eye on the world , they would fee themfelves furrounded with fufferers ; and find that they are only drinking out of that mixed cup , which Providence has prepared for all.- " I will restore thy daughter again ...
Side 20
... look impartially about us we fhall find , that every day has likewife its pleafures and its joys . We should cherish sentiments of charity towards all men . The Author of all good nourishes much piety and virtue in hearts that are ...
... look impartially about us we fhall find , that every day has likewife its pleafures and its joys . We should cherish sentiments of charity towards all men . The Author of all good nourishes much piety and virtue in hearts that are ...
Side 23
... look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can hardly procure ; multitudes groaning un- der fickness in defolate cottages , untended and un- mourned ; many , apparently in a better fituation of life , pining away in ...
... look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can hardly procure ; multitudes groaning un- der fickness in defolate cottages , untended and un- mourned ; many , apparently in a better fituation of life , pining away in ...
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