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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... cheerfulness to a good mind , is , its consideration of that Being , on whom we have our dependence , and in whom , though we behold him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of his 36 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
... cheerfulness to a good mind , is , its consideration of that Being , on whom we have our dependence , and in whom , though we behold him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of his 36 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
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... behold Him . Let giddy and thoughtless men turn aside a little from the haunts of riot . Let them stand still , and contemplate the wondrous works of God ; and make trial of the effect which such contemplation would produce . It were ...
... behold Him . Let giddy and thoughtless men turn aside a little from the haunts of riot . Let them stand still , and contemplate the wondrous works of God ; and make trial of the effect which such contemplation would produce . It were ...
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... Behold the sun in all his splendour rolling over your head by day ; and the moon by night in mild and se- rene majesty , surrounded with that host of stars which present to your imagination an innumerable multitude of worlds . Listen to ...
... Behold the sun in all his splendour rolling over your head by day ; and the moon by night in mild and se- rene majesty , surrounded with that host of stars which present to your imagination an innumerable multitude of worlds . Listen to ...
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... behold ; lost to all reverence of that God who gave you being , and who has erected this amazing fabric of nature , on which you look only with stupid and unmeaning eyes ? -No : let the scenes which you behold prompt cor- respondent ...
... behold ; lost to all reverence of that God who gave you being , and who has erected this amazing fabric of nature , on which you look only with stupid and unmeaning eyes ? -No : let the scenes which you behold prompt cor- respondent ...
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... behold him only in his wrath , and shrink within the flames to conceal them- selves from him . It is not in the power of imagina- tion to conceive the fearful effects of Omnipotence in- censed . But I shall only consider the ...
... behold him only in his wrath , and shrink within the flames to conceal them- selves from him . It is not in the power of imagina- tion to conceive the fearful effects of Omnipotence in- censed . But I shall only consider the ...
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