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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... wisdom of their Creator . - The earth happily adapted to the nature of man . 2. An eruption of mount Vesuvius , 3. Description of the preparations made by Xerxes , the Persian Monarch , for invad- ing Greece , 4. Character of Martin ...
... wisdom of their Creator . - The earth happily adapted to the nature of man . 2. An eruption of mount Vesuvius , 3. Description of the preparations made by Xerxes , the Persian Monarch , for invad- ing Greece , 4. Character of Martin ...
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... wisdom , 4. The Rake and the Hermit , 5. The deserted village , 6. The deserted village continued , - 259 . 263 - 266 - 272 7. The Traveller ; or a prospect of society , 278 8. The Traveller continued , 9. The vanity of human wishes ...
... wisdom , 4. The Rake and the Hermit , 5. The deserted village , 6. The deserted village continued , - 259 . 263 - 266 - 272 7. The Traveller ; or a prospect of society , 278 8. The Traveller continued , 9. The vanity of human wishes ...
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... wisdom . " I answered , " Mock not thy servant , who is but a worm before thee ; life and death are in thy hand , and happiness and misery are the daughters of thy will . " " Hassan , " he replied , " I can no otherwise give life and ...
... wisdom . " I answered , " Mock not thy servant , who is but a worm before thee ; life and death are in thy hand , and happiness and misery are the daughters of thy will . " " Hassan , " he replied , " I can no otherwise give life and ...
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... wisdom , there is any precept to obtain felicity , vouchsafe it to For this purpose , I am come : a purpose which yet I feared to reveal , lest , like all the former , it should be disappointed . " Almet listened with looks of asto ...
... wisdom , there is any precept to obtain felicity , vouchsafe it to For this purpose , I am come : a purpose which yet I feared to reveal , lest , like all the former , it should be disappointed . " Almet listened with looks of asto ...
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... which the thorns and the flowers of this wilderness lose their distinction , and are both alike impotent to give pleasure or pain . " What then has eternal wisdom unequally distri- buted ? 22 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
... which the thorns and the flowers of this wilderness lose their distinction , and are both alike impotent to give pleasure or pain . " What then has eternal wisdom unequally distri- buted ? 22 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
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