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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... pride . Oh ! let not thy heart despise me , thou whom experience has not taught , that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess . Oh ! that for me this lesson had not been writ . ten on the tablets of Providence ...
... pride . Oh ! let not thy heart despise me , thou whom experience has not taught , that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess . Oh ! that for me this lesson had not been writ . ten on the tablets of Providence ...
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... pride , spleen , and cavil . It is indeed no wonder , that men , who are uneasy in themselves , should be so to the rest of the world : and how is it possible for a man to be otherwise than uneasy in himself , who is in danger every ...
... pride , spleen , and cavil . It is indeed no wonder , that men , who are uneasy in themselves , should be so to the rest of the world : and how is it possible for a man to be otherwise than uneasy in himself , who is in danger every ...
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... pride and terminated in infamy . GOLDSMITH , SECTION IV . CHARACTER OF MARTIN LUTHER . As Luther was raised up by Providence to be the author of one of the greatest and most interesting revolutions re- corded in history , there is not ...
... pride and terminated in infamy . GOLDSMITH , SECTION IV . CHARACTER OF MARTIN LUTHER . As Luther was raised up by Providence to be the author of one of the greatest and most interesting revolutions re- corded in history , there is not ...
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... pride of life into supposed in- dependence , that impious sentiment , if not uttered by the mouth , yet too often lurks in the hearts of many during their flourishing periods , " What is the Almighty that we should serve him , and what ...
... pride of life into supposed in- dependence , that impious sentiment , if not uttered by the mouth , yet too often lurks in the hearts of many during their flourishing periods , " What is the Almighty that we should serve him , and what ...
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... pride , ( when the moral so sweetly , so imperceptibly insinu- ates , ) even pride itself , lends a willing ear to admonition . ASPASIO . It has been very justly remarked , that this eloquence of similitudes is equally affecting to the ...
... pride , ( when the moral so sweetly , so imperceptibly insinu- ates , ) even pride itself , lends a willing ear to admonition . ASPASIO . It has been very justly remarked , that this eloquence of similitudes is equally affecting to the ...
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