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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... hope , that the present volume will not be deemed un- worthy of attention . It pursues the same objects as the former work ; it preserves the same chaste attention to the morals of youth ; its materials are taken from the most correct ...
... hope , that the present volume will not be deemed un- worthy of attention . It pursues the same objects as the former work ; it preserves the same chaste attention to the morals of youth ; its materials are taken from the most correct ...
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... hope ; for when ease and affluence approached thee , thou wast content with poverty and labour no more . which then became the object , was also the bound of thy hope ; and he , whose utmost hope is disappointed , must inevitably be ...
... hope ; for when ease and affluence approached thee , thou wast content with poverty and labour no more . which then became the object , was also the bound of thy hope ; and he , whose utmost hope is disappointed , must inevitably be ...
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... hope upon that portion , in comparison of which the world is as the drop of the bucket , and the dust of the balance . Return , my son , to thy labour ; thy food shall be again tasteful , and thy rest shall be sweet ; to thy content ...
... hope upon that portion , in comparison of which the world is as the drop of the bucket , and the dust of the balance . Return , my son , to thy labour ; thy food shall be again tasteful , and thy rest shall be sweet ; to thy content ...
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... Hope , and these in Fear . POLE . ALMET , the dervise who watched the sacred lamp in the sepulchre of the prophet , as he one day rose up from the devotions of the morning , which he had per- formed at the gate of the temple , with his ...
... Hope , and these in Fear . POLE . ALMET , the dervise who watched the sacred lamp in the sepulchre of the prophet , as he one day rose up from the devotions of the morning , which he had per- formed at the gate of the temple , with his ...
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... hope and fear . The wretch who wished to linger in the garden , who looked round upon its limits with ter- ror , was destitute of enjoyment , because he was desti- tute of hope , and was perpetually tormented by the dread of losing that ...
... hope and fear . The wretch who wished to linger in the garden , who looked round upon its limits with ter- ror , was destitute of enjoyment , because he was desti- tute of hope , and was perpetually tormented by the dread of losing that ...
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