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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 sider |
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... affections , is either feeble or transient . A temperate use of such entertainment seems therefore requis- ite , to afford proper scope for the operations of the understan- ding and the heart . The reader will perceive , that the ...
... affections , is either feeble or transient . A temperate use of such entertainment seems therefore requis- ite , to afford proper scope for the operations of the understan- ding and the heart . The reader will perceive , that the ...
Side 1
... makes from without . Compassonate affections , even when they draw tears from our eyes for human misery , convey satisfac- tion to the heart . C They who have nothing to give , can often afford Chap . 1 . 1 Select Sentences .
... makes from without . Compassonate affections , even when they draw tears from our eyes for human misery , convey satisfac- tion to the heart . C They who have nothing to give , can often afford Chap . 1 . 1 Select Sentences .
Side 16
... affections , if no troubles had been mingled with its pleasures ? In seasons of distress or difficulty , to abandon our- selves to dejection , carries no mark of a great or a worthy mind . Instead of sinking under trouble , and ...
... affections , if no troubles had been mingled with its pleasures ? In seasons of distress or difficulty , to abandon our- selves to dejection , carries no mark of a great or a worthy mind . Instead of sinking under trouble , and ...
Side 22
... affection , had never opened itself to the flatter- ing allurements of ambition ; and the information of her advancement to the throne was by no means agree- able to her . She even refused to accept the crown ; pleaded the preferable ...
... affection , had never opened itself to the flatter- ing allurements of ambition ; and the information of her advancement to the throne was by no means agree- able to her . She even refused to accept the crown ; pleaded the preferable ...
Side 23
... affections would be forever united ; and where death , disappointment , and mis- fortunes , could no longer have access to them , or dis . turb their eternal felicity . It had been intended to execute the lady Jane and lord Guilford ...
... affections would be forever united ; and where death , disappointment , and mis- fortunes , could no longer have access to them , or dis . turb their eternal felicity . It had been intended to execute the lady Jane and lord Guilford ...
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Side 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.