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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... honour you can pay the Author of your being , is a behaviour so cheerful as to discover a mind satisfied with his dispensations . " Here my preceptress paused ; and I was going to express my acknowledgments for her discourse , when a ...
... honour you can pay the Author of your being , is a behaviour so cheerful as to discover a mind satisfied with his dispensations . " Here my preceptress paused ; and I was going to express my acknowledgments for her discourse , when a ...
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... honour ; in strong attachments to friends , and the other emo . tions of a kind and tender heart . Almost all the plans with which persons who have been liberally educated , begin the world , are connected with honourable views . At ...
... honour ; in strong attachments to friends , and the other emo . tions of a kind and tender heart . Almost all the plans with which persons who have been liberally educated , begin the world , are connected with honourable views . At ...
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... honours which were continually present to his view.— Thus fancy , with as much ease and confidence as if it were a perfect judge of creation , erects a new world to itself , and exults with admiration of its own work . But let us pause ...
... honours which were continually present to his view.— Thus fancy , with as much ease and confidence as if it were a perfect judge of creation , erects a new world to itself , and exults with admiration of its own work . But let us pause ...
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... honours are reaped . Here are formed the capital virtues of fortitude , temperance , and self - denial ; moderation in prosperity , patience in adversity , submission to the will of God , and charity and forgiveness to men , amidst the ...
... honours are reaped . Here are formed the capital virtues of fortitude , temperance , and self - denial ; moderation in prosperity , patience in adversity , submission to the will of God , and charity and forgiveness to men , amidst the ...
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... honour , when he knew that " they were to the Jews a stumbling block , and to the Greeks foolishness ? " Was it then the love of power , that induced him to make this great change ? Power ! over whom ? over a flock of sheep , whom he ...
... honour , when he knew that " they were to the Jews a stumbling block , and to the Greeks foolishness ? " Was it then the love of power , that induced him to make this great change ? Power ! over whom ? over a flock of sheep , whom he ...
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