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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... merit of the Grammar , as it came , in purity , from the pen of the author , about fifty thoufand copies of the Abridg ment , and thirty - five thousand of the Large Grammar , are sold an- nually . The former , in the fhort period of ...
... merit of the Grammar , as it came , in purity , from the pen of the author , about fifty thoufand copies of the Abridg ment , and thirty - five thousand of the Large Grammar , are sold an- nually . The former , in the fhort period of ...
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... merit them by a recantation ; by giving him hopes of long enjoying those powerful friends , whom his beneficent disposi- tion had attached to him , during the course of his pros- perity . Overcome by the fond love of life ; terrified by ...
... merit them by a recantation ; by giving him hopes of long enjoying those powerful friends , whom his beneficent disposi- tion had attached to him , during the course of his pros- perity . Overcome by the fond love of life ; terrified by ...
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... merit ; possessed of learning and capacity , and adorned with candour , sincerity , and be- neficence , and all those virtues which were fitted to render him useful and amiable in society . HUME . SECTION 111 . Christianity furnishes ...
... merit ; possessed of learning and capacity , and adorned with candour , sincerity , and be- neficence , and all those virtues which were fitted to render him useful and amiable in society . HUME . SECTION 111 . Christianity furnishes ...
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... merit , heroic virtue , should respect the sacred source of lasting honour . HERCULES . Indeed , if writers employed themselves only in re- cording the acts of great men , much might be said in K their favour . But why do they trouble ...
... merit , heroic virtue , should respect the sacred source of lasting honour . HERCULES . Indeed , if writers employed themselves only in re- cording the acts of great men , much might be said in K their favour . But why do they trouble ...
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... merit even superior to yours . MARCUS AURELIUS . That philosophy you ascribe to me has 100 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader . Marcus Aurelius Philosophus and Servius Tullius An absolute and limited narchy compared,
... merit even superior to yours . MARCUS AURELIUS . That philosophy you ascribe to me has 100 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader . Marcus Aurelius Philosophus and Servius Tullius An absolute and limited narchy compared,
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