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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... tion , paffed through twenty - eight editions , been adopted as the stand- ard in our Colleges , which has coft the author years of reflection to bring into fyftem and order , and to make correct and har- monious in all parts , should ...
... tion , paffed through twenty - eight editions , been adopted as the stand- ard in our Colleges , which has coft the author years of reflection to bring into fyftem and order , and to make correct and har- monious in all parts , should ...
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... tion , in selecting those pieces which are calculated to attach the young mind to a religion perfectly adapted to the condition of man ; and which not only furnishes the most rational and sublime enjoyments in this life , but secures ...
... tion , in selecting those pieces which are calculated to attach the young mind to a religion perfectly adapted to the condition of man ; and which not only furnishes the most rational and sublime enjoyments in this life , but secures ...
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... and eyed me with a placid but fixed atten- tion . I suspected that he had some knowledge of me , and therefore inquired his country and his name . " Hassan , " said he , " I have 2 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
... and eyed me with a placid but fixed atten- tion . I suspected that he had some knowledge of me , and therefore inquired his country and his name . " Hassan , " said he , " I have 2 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
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... tion of power , I can transfer the insatiable wishes of avarice and ambition from one object to another : but with respect to virtue , I am impotent ; if I could reward it , I would reward it in thee . Thou art con- tent , and hast ...
... tion of power , I can transfer the insatiable wishes of avarice and ambition from one object to another : but with respect to virtue , I am impotent ; if I could reward it , I would reward it in thee . Thou art con- tent , and hast ...
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... tion to the weakness of their understandings , and the strength of their passions . How many pass away , after this manner , some of the most valuable years of their life , tost in a whirlpool of what cannot be called pleasure , so much ...
... tion to the weakness of their understandings , and the strength of their passions . How many pass away , after this manner , some of the most valuable years of their life , tost in a whirlpool of what cannot be called pleasure , so much ...
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