Sequel to the English Reader : Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry: Designed to Improve the Highest Class of Learners in Reading, to Establish a Taste for Just and Accurate Composition, and to Promote the Interests of Piety and VirtueCollins & Company, 1817 - 364 páginas |
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... SECTION I. Religion the foundation of content . An Allegory . OMAR , the hermit of the mountain Aubukabis , which rises in the east of Mecca , and overlooks the city , found one evening a man sitting pensive and alone , within a few ...
... SECTION I. Religion the foundation of content . An Allegory . OMAR , the hermit of the mountain Aubukabis , which rises in the east of Mecca , and overlooks the city , found one evening a man sitting pensive and alone , within a few ...
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... SECTION 11 . DR . JOHNSON . The vision of Mirza ; exhibiting a picture of human life . On the fifth day of the moon , which , according to the custom of my forefathers , I always keep holy , after having washed myself , and offered up ...
... SECTION 11 . DR . JOHNSON . The vision of Mirza ; exhibiting a picture of human life . On the fifth day of the moon , which , according to the custom of my forefathers , I always keep holy , after having washed myself , and offered up ...
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... , and the happy islands , I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat , with oxen , sheep , and camels , grazing upon the sides of it . ADDISON . SECTION III . Endeavours of mankind to get rid of Chap . 1 . 11 Narrative Pieces .
... , and the happy islands , I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat , with oxen , sheep , and camels , grazing upon the sides of it . ADDISON . SECTION III . Endeavours of mankind to get rid of Chap . 1 . 11 Narrative Pieces .
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... another person . But as there arose many new incidents in the sequel of my vision , I shall reserve them for the subject of my next paper . SECTION IV . The same subject continued . In my 14 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
... another person . But as there arose many new incidents in the sequel of my vision , I shall reserve them for the subject of my next paper . SECTION IV . The same subject continued . In my 14 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
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... SECTION IV . The same subject continued . In my last paper I gave my reader a sight of that mountain of miseries , which was made up of those several calamities that afflict the minds of men . I saw , with unspeakable pleasure , the ...
... SECTION IV . The same subject continued . In my last paper I gave my reader a sight of that mountain of miseries , which was made up of those several calamities that afflict the minds of men . I saw , with unspeakable pleasure , the ...
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