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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... eternity which is called Time , measured out by the sun , and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consum- mation . Examine now , said he , this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends , and tell me what thou discover ...
... eternity which is called Time , measured out by the sun , and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consum- mation . Examine now , said he , this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends , and tell me what thou discover ...
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... eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it . I directed my sight as I was ordered , and ( whether or not the good genius strengthened it with any ...
... eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it . I directed my sight as I was ordered , and ( whether or not the good genius strengthened it with any ...
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... convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain , who has such an eternity reserved for him . I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands . At length , said 16 PART 1 . SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH READER .
... convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain , who has such an eternity reserved for him . I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands . At length , said 16 PART 1 . SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH READER .
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... eternity shall close over the vacuity of my life , like the sea upon the path of a ship , and leave no traces of my existence more durable than the furrow which remains after the waves have united . If in the treasures of thy wisdom ...
... eternity shall close over the vacuity of my life , like the sea upon the path of a ship , and leave no traces of my existence more durable than the furrow which remains after the waves have united . If in the treasures of thy wisdom ...
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... eternity , his silent re- signation , his ready accommodation of his thoughts and beha . viour to its inscrutable ways , is at once the most excellent sort of self - denial , and a source of the most exalted transports . Society is the ...
... eternity , his silent re- signation , his ready accommodation of his thoughts and beha . viour to its inscrutable ways , is at once the most excellent sort of self - denial , and a source of the most exalted transports . Society is the ...
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