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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... temper is even and unruffled , whether in action or in solitude . He comes with a relish to all those goods which nature has provided for him ; tastes all the pleasures of the creation which are poured around him ; and does not feel the ...
... temper is even and unruffled , whether in action or in solitude . He comes with a relish to all those goods which nature has provided for him ; tastes all the pleasures of the creation which are poured around him ; and does not feel the ...
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... temper . There is something so par- ticularly gloomy and offensive to human nature in the pros- pect of non - existence , that I cannot but wonder , with many excellent writers , how it is possible for a man to outlive the expectation ...
... temper . There is something so par- ticularly gloomy and offensive to human nature in the pros- pect of non - existence , that I cannot but wonder , with many excellent writers , how it is possible for a man to outlive the expectation ...
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... temper from a virtuous mind . Pain and sickness , shame and reproach , poverty and old age , nay , death itself , considering the shortness of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deserve the ` name of evils ...
... temper from a virtuous mind . Pain and sickness , shame and reproach , poverty and old age , nay , death itself , considering the shortness of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deserve the ` name of evils ...
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... temper , as will make us pleasing to ourselves , to those with whom we con- verse , and to Him whom we are made to please . ADDISON . SECTION III . HAPPY EFFECTS OF CONTEMPLATING THE WORKS OF NATURE . WITH the Divine works we are in ...
... temper , as will make us pleasing to ourselves , to those with whom we con- verse , and to Him whom we are made to please . ADDISON . SECTION III . HAPPY EFFECTS OF CONTEMPLATING THE WORKS OF NATURE . WITH the Divine works we are in ...
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... temper , melancholy , ignorance , credulity , and vanity , are the ingredients of which enthusiasm is composed but from all these , except the first , the apostle appears to have been wholly free . That he had great fer- vour of zeal ...
... temper , melancholy , ignorance , credulity , and vanity , are the ingredients of which enthusiasm is composed but from all these , except the first , the apostle appears to have been wholly free . That he had great fer- vour of zeal ...
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