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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... creatures , several little winged boys that perch in great numbers upon the middle . arches . These , said the genius , are envy , avarice , super- stition , despair , love , with the like cares and passions that infest human life . I ...
... creatures , several little winged boys that perch in great numbers upon the middle . arches . These , said the genius , are envy , avarice , super- stition , despair , love , with the like cares and passions that infest human life . I ...
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... creatures groaning under their respective burdens , and to consider that prodigious bulk of human calamities which lay before me . There were , however , several persons who gave me great diversion upon this occasion . I observed one ...
... creatures groaning under their respective burdens , and to consider that prodigious bulk of human calamities which lay before me . There were , however , several persons who gave me great diversion upon this occasion . I observed one ...
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... creatures with sentiments of humanity and compassion . ADDISON . SECTION V. THE VISION OF ALMET . Fortune her gifts may variously dispose : And these be happy call'd , unhappy those ; But Heaven's just balance equal will appear , While ...
... creatures with sentiments of humanity and compassion . ADDISON . SECTION V. THE VISION OF ALMET . Fortune her gifts may variously dispose : And these be happy call'd , unhappy those ; But Heaven's just balance equal will appear , While ...
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... creatures , and cultivating inward rectitude . To his lower faculties he must allow such gratifications as will , by refreshing him , invigorate his nobler pursuits . In the re- gions inhabited by angelic natures , unmingled felicity ...
... creatures , and cultivating inward rectitude . To his lower faculties he must allow such gratifications as will , by refreshing him , invigorate his nobler pursuits . In the re- gions inhabited by angelic natures , unmingled felicity ...
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... creature and thy subject ? In this magnificent temple of the universe , where thou hast placed me , may I ever be thy faithful wor- shipper ; and may the reverence and the fear of God be the first sentiments of my heart ! " BLAIR ...
... creature and thy subject ? In this magnificent temple of the universe , where thou hast placed me , may I ever be thy faithful wor- shipper ; and may the reverence and the fear of God be the first sentiments of my heart ! " BLAIR ...
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