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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... 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 and elegant ...
... 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 and elegant ...
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... present to him such facts and sentiments as are peculiarly instructive and in- teresting , and calculated to make durable impressions on his mind . The language too of these sketches has been studious- ly regarded ; that no want of ...
... present to him such facts and sentiments as are peculiarly instructive and in- teresting , and calculated to make durable impressions on his mind . The language too of these sketches has been studious- ly regarded ; that no want of ...
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... present state , is indeed faint and low , compared with his immortal pros- pects , and noble capacities : but yet whatever portion of it the distributing hand of heaven offers to each in- dividual , is a needful support and refreshment ...
... present state , is indeed faint and low , compared with his immortal pros- pects , and noble capacities : but yet whatever portion of it the distributing hand of heaven offers to each in- dividual , is a needful support and refreshment ...
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... present state of humanity ; and is very conspi- cuous in the characters of those who are looked upon as the greatest philosophers among the heathens , as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as saints and holy men among ...
... present state of humanity ; and is very conspi- cuous in the characters of those who are looked upon as the greatest philosophers among the heathens , as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as saints and holy men among ...
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... present to your imagination an innumerable multitude of worlds . Listen to the awful voice of thunder . Lis- ten to the roar of the tempest and the ocean . Sur- vey the wonders that fill the earth which you inhabit . Contemplate a ...
... present to your imagination an innumerable multitude of worlds . Listen to the awful voice of thunder . Lis- ten to the roar of the tempest and the ocean . Sur- vey the wonders that fill the earth which you inhabit . Contemplate a ...
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