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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... praise is due to the Creator , 4. Folly of human pursuits , · 236 239 241 243 245 5. An address to the Deity , 6. A monody on the death of lady Lyttelton , 247 CHAPTER V. PROMISCUOUS PIECES . SECT . 1. Hymn to contentment , 253 2. An ...
... praise is due to the Creator , 4. Folly of human pursuits , · 236 239 241 243 245 5. An address to the Deity , 6. A monody on the death of lady Lyttelton , 247 CHAPTER V. PROMISCUOUS PIECES . SECT . 1. Hymn to contentment , 253 2. An ...
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... praise and thanks- giving to Providence under all its dispensations . It is a kind of acquiescence in the state wherein we are pla- ced , and a secret approbation of the divine will in his conduct towards man . There are but two things ...
... praise and thanks- giving to Providence under all its dispensations . It is a kind of acquiescence in the state wherein we are pla- ced , and a secret approbation of the divine will in his conduct towards man . There are but two things ...
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... praise of his contemporaries , which ought to regulate the opinions of the present age concerning him . Zeal for what he regarded as truth , undaunted intrepidity to maintain it , abilities both natural and acquired to de- fend it , and ...
... praise of his contemporaries , which ought to regulate the opinions of the present age concerning him . Zeal for what he regarded as truth , undaunted intrepidity to maintain it , abilities both natural and acquired to de- fend it , and ...
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... praise- worthy dispositions to excess , he bordered sometimes on what was culpable , and was often betrayed into actions which exposed him to censure . His confidence that his own opinions were well founded approached to arrogance ; his ...
... praise- worthy dispositions to excess , he bordered sometimes on what was culpable , and was often betrayed into actions which exposed him to censure . His confidence that his own opinions were well founded approached to arrogance ; his ...
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... his world pre- sents , let our hearts send forth a perpetual hymn of praise . Evening and morning let us celebrate Him , who maketh the morning and the evening to rejoice over 160 . Part . 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
... his world pre- sents , let our hearts send forth a perpetual hymn of praise . Evening and morning let us celebrate Him , who maketh the morning and the evening to rejoice over 160 . Part . 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
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