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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... philosophers among the heathens , as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as saints and holy men among Christians . If we consider cherfulness in three lights , with re- gard to ourselves , to those we converse with ...
... philosophers among the heathens , as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as saints and holy men among Christians . If we consider cherfulness in three lights , with re- gard to ourselves , to those we converse with ...
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... philosophers have entered so far into the counsels of Divine Wisdom , as to explain much of the great operations of nature . The dimensions and distances of the planets , the causes of their revolu- tions , the path of comets , and the ...
... philosophers have entered so far into the counsels of Divine Wisdom , as to explain much of the great operations of nature . The dimensions and distances of the planets , the causes of their revolu- tions , the path of comets , and the ...
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... philosophers to direct it . But do not arts and sciences render men effeminate , luxurious , and inactive ? and can you deny that wit and learning are often made subservient to very bad purposes ? CADMUS . I will own that there are some ...
... philosophers to direct it . But do not arts and sciences render men effeminate , luxurious , and inactive ? and can you deny that wit and learning are often made subservient to very bad purposes ? CADMUS . I will own that there are some ...
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... philosophers , spoke of a future state of retribu- tion as a thing desirable , and not improbable : revela- tion speaks of it as certain ; and of the present life as a state of trial , wherein virtue or holiness is necessary , not only ...
... philosophers , spoke of a future state of retribu- tion as a thing desirable , and not improbable : revela- tion speaks of it as certain ; and of the present life as a state of trial , wherein virtue or holiness is necessary , not only ...
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... philosopher , to pursue his discoveries ; the saint , to im- prove himself in grace . " Isaac went out to meditate in the fields , at the evening tide . " David , amidst all the splendour of royalty , often bears witness both to the ...
... philosopher , to pursue his discoveries ; the saint , to im- prove himself in grace . " Isaac went out to meditate in the fields , at the evening tide . " David , amidst all the splendour of royalty , often bears witness both to the ...
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