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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... blessing which he petitioned of the prophet , as the prophet's vicegerent , he was diligent to dispense . In the intervals of his devotion , there- fore , he went about the city relieving distress and restraining oppression ; the widow ...
... blessing which he petitioned of the prophet , as the prophet's vicegerent , he was diligent to dispense . In the intervals of his devotion , there- fore , he went about the city relieving distress and restraining oppression ; the widow ...
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... blessings he has sent , is virtue and obedience ; and to reject them merely as means of pleasure , is pitiable ignorance , or absurd perverseness . In- finite goodness is the source of created existence . The pro- per tendency of every ...
... blessings he has sent , is virtue and obedience ; and to reject them merely as means of pleasure , is pitiable ignorance , or absurd perverseness . In- finite goodness is the source of created existence . The pro- per tendency of every ...
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... blessing to man ? Is not his attachment to worldly objects the great source both of his misery and his guilt ? Employed in perpetual con- templation of heavenly objects , and in preparation for the enjoyment of them , would he not ...
... blessing to man ? Is not his attachment to worldly objects the great source both of his misery and his guilt ? Employed in perpetual con- templation of heavenly objects , and in preparation for the enjoyment of them , would he not ...
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... blessing . Labour stands in the room of knowledge may be , religion The one adorns a man , and But however necessary to us we know , is infinitely more so . gives him , it is true , superiority , and rank in life ; but the other is ...
... blessing . Labour stands in the room of knowledge may be , religion The one adorns a man , and But however necessary to us we know , is infinitely more so . gives him , it is true , superiority , and rank in life ; but the other is ...
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... duce moral seriousness , but awaken sentiments of piety , and bring men into the sanctuary of religion . One might , in . deed , imagine that the blessings of a prosperous condition 90 PART 1 . SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH READER .
... duce moral seriousness , but awaken sentiments of piety , and bring men into the sanctuary of religion . One might , in . deed , imagine that the blessings of a prosperous condition 90 PART 1 . SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH READER .
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