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 ReadingM. Bartgis, 1819 - 252 sider |
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... temper and the guilty passions of the bad , frustrate the effect of every advantage which the world con fers on them . The external misfortunes of life , disappointments , poverty , and sickness , are light in comparison of those inward ...
... temper and the guilty passions of the bad , frustrate the effect of every advantage which the world con fers on them . The external misfortunes of life , disappointments , poverty , and sickness , are light in comparison of those inward ...
Side 141
... temper , with respect to one another , 1. Ir is evident , in the general , that if we consult either public welfare or private happiness , Christian charity ought to regulate our disposition in mutual intercourse . this great principle ...
... temper , with respect to one another , 1. Ir is evident , in the general , that if we consult either public welfare or private happiness , Christian charity ought to regulate our disposition in mutual intercourse . this great principle ...
Side 143
... temper finds no exercise , unless when opportunities offer of performing actions of high generosity , or of extensive utility . These seldom occur . The condition of the greater part of man- kind in a good measure , precludes them . But ...
... temper finds no exercise , unless when opportunities offer of performing actions of high generosity , or of extensive utility . These seldom occur . The condition of the greater part of man- kind in a good measure , precludes them . But ...
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Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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