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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... behold the waste that circumscribed it . But he that toiled through the valley was happy because he looked forward with hope . Thus , to the sojourner upon earth , it is of little moment whether the path he treads be strewed with ...
... behold the waste that circumscribed it . But he that toiled through the valley was happy because he looked forward with hope . Thus , to the sojourner upon earth , it is of little moment whether the path he treads be strewed with ...
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... behold him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of his perfections , we see every thing that we can imagine as great , glorious , or amiable . We find ourselves every where upheld by his goodness , and sur- rounded with an ...
... behold him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of his perfections , we see every thing that we can imagine as great , glorious , or amiable . We find ourselves every where upheld by his goodness , and sur- rounded with an ...
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... behold Him . Let giddy and thoughtless men turn aside a little from the haunts of riot . Let them stand still , and contemplate the wondrous works of God ; and make trial of the effect which such contemplation would produce . It were ...
... behold Him . Let giddy and thoughtless men turn aside a little from the haunts of riot . Let them stand still , and contemplate the wondrous works of God ; and make trial of the effect which such contemplation would produce . It were ...
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... Behold the sun in all his splen- dour rolling over your head by day ; and the moon , by night , in mild and serene majesty , surrounded with that host of stars which present to your imagination an innumerable multitude of worlds ...
... Behold the sun in all his splen- dour rolling over your head by day ; and the moon , by night , in mild and serene majesty , surrounded with that host of stars which present to your imagination an innumerable multitude of worlds ...
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... behold him only in his wrath , and shrink within the flames to conceal themselves from him . It is not in the power of imagination to conceive the fearful effects of Oranipotence incensed . But I shall only consider the wretchedness of ...
... behold him only in his wrath , and shrink within the flames to conceal themselves from him . It is not in the power of imagination to conceive the fearful effects of Oranipotence incensed . But I shall only consider the wretchedness of ...
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