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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... poets who have contributed to his selection . * Judicious parents and tutors , who feel the importance of a guarded education , will find it incumbent upon them to select for their children and pupils , such writings , both in prose and ...
... poets who have contributed to his selection . * Judicious parents and tutors , who feel the importance of a guarded education , will find it incumbent upon them to select for their children and pupils , such writings , both in prose and ...
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... poets . That he was not credulous , is plain from his having resisted the evidence of all the miracles performed on earth by Christ , as well as those that were afterwards worked by the apostles ; to the fame of which , as he lived in ...
... poets . That he was not credulous , is plain from his having resisted the evidence of all the miracles performed on earth by Christ , as well as those that were afterwards worked by the apostles ; to the fame of which , as he lived in ...
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... poets . Their example was fol- lowed by all those whom he had rewarded for contri- buting to his pleasures ; and only a few whose virtue had entitled them to favour , were now to be seen in his hall or chambers . He felt his danger ...
... poets . Their example was fol- lowed by all those whom he had rewarded for contri- buting to his pleasures ; and only a few whose virtue had entitled them to favour , were now to be seen in his hall or chambers . He felt his danger ...
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... poets , sculptors , painters , and designers , who wantoned in un- experienced plenty ; and employed their powers in cele- brating their patron . But in a short time they forgot the distress from which they had been rescued ; and began ...
... poets , sculptors , painters , and designers , who wantoned in un- experienced plenty ; and employed their powers in cele- brating their patron . But in a short time they forgot the distress from which they had been rescued ; and began ...
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... poet . " Hamet , " said he , " thy ingratitude has put an end to my hopes and ex- periments . I have now learned the vanity of those la- bours that wish to be rewarded by human benevolence . I shall henceforth do good , and avoid evil ...
... poet . " Hamet , " said he , " thy ingratitude has put an end to my hopes and ex- periments . I have now learned the vanity of those la- bours that wish to be rewarded by human benevolence . I shall henceforth do good , and avoid evil ...
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