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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... temper is even and unruffled , whether in action or in solitude . He comes with a relish to all those goods which nature has provided for him ; tastes all the plea- sures of the creation which are poured around him and does not feel the ...
... temper is even and unruffled , whether in action or in solitude . He comes with a relish to all those goods which nature has provided for him ; tastes all the plea- sures of the creation which are poured around him and does not feel the ...
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... temper . There is something so particularly gloomy and offen- sive to human nature in the prospect of non - existence , that I cannot but wonder , with many excellent writers , how it is possible for a man to outlive the expectation of ...
... temper . There is something so particularly gloomy and offen- sive to human nature in the prospect of non - existence , that I cannot but wonder , with many excellent writers , how it is possible for a man to outlive the expectation of ...
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... temper from a virtuous mind . Pain and sickness , shame and reproach , poverty and old age , nay , death itself , considering the shortness of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deserve the name of evils ...
... temper from a virtuous mind . Pain and sickness , shame and reproach , poverty and old age , nay , death itself , considering the shortness of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deserve the name of evils ...
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... temper , as will make us pleasing to our- selves , to those with whom we converse , and to Him whom we are made to please . SECTION III . ADDISON . Happy effects of contemplating the works of nature . WITH the Divine works we are in ...
... temper , as will make us pleasing to our- selves , to those with whom we converse , and to Him whom we are made to please . SECTION III . ADDISON . Happy effects of contemplating the works of nature . WITH the Divine works we are in ...
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... temper , melancholy , igno- rance , credulity , and vanity , are the ingredients of which enthusiasm is composed : but from all these , except the first , the apostle appears to have been wholly free . That he had great fervour of zeal ...
... temper , melancholy , igno- rance , credulity , and vanity , are the ingredients of which enthusiasm is composed : but from all these , except the first , the apostle appears to have been wholly free . That he had great fervour of zeal ...
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