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 VirtueJohn S. Taylor, 1844 - 358 páginas |
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... Amidst this course of juvenile infatuation , I readily admit , that much good nature may still remain . Generosity and attachments may be found ; nay , some awe of religion may still subsist , and some remains of those good impressions ...
... Amidst this course of juvenile infatuation , I readily admit , that much good nature may still remain . Generosity and attachments may be found ; nay , some awe of religion may still subsist , and some remains of those good impressions ...
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... amidst the various competitions of worldly interest . Such is the plan of Divine wisdom for man's improvement . But put the case , that the plans devised by human wisdom were to take place , and that the rewards of the just were to be ...
... amidst the various competitions of worldly interest . Such is the plan of Divine wisdom for man's improvement . But put the case , that the plans devised by human wisdom were to take place , and that the rewards of the just were to be ...
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... amidst the insults of his ene- mies ; and having now summoned up all the force of his mind , he bore their scorn , as well as the torture of his pun- ishment , with singular fortitude . He stretched out his hand , and , without ...
... amidst the insults of his ene- mies ; and having now summoned up all the force of his mind , he bore their scorn , as well as the torture of his pun- ishment , with singular fortitude . He stretched out his hand , and , without ...
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... amidst the distresses of life . Here our religion incon- testibly triumphs ; and its happy effects , in this respect , fur- nish a strong argument to every benevolent mind , for wish- ing them to be farther diffused throughout the world ...
... amidst the distresses of life . Here our religion incon- testibly triumphs ; and its happy effects , in this respect , fur- nish a strong argument to every benevolent mind , for wish- ing them to be farther diffused throughout the world ...
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... amidst the distressful exi . gencies of life ? -Such meditations as these , suggested by the house of mourning , frequently produce a change in the whole character . They revive those sparks of goodness ' which were nearly extinguished ...
... amidst the distressful exi . gencies of life ? -Such meditations as these , suggested by the house of mourning , frequently produce a change in the whole character . They revive those sparks of goodness ' which were nearly extinguished ...
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