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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... thee . Thou art content , and hast therefore neither avarice nor am- bition . To exalt thee , would destroy the simplicity of thy life , and diminish that happiness which I have no power either to increase or to continue .'- He then ...
... thee . Thou art content , and hast therefore neither avarice nor am- bition . To exalt thee , would destroy the simplicity of thy life , and diminish that happiness which I have no power either to increase or to continue .'- He then ...
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... thou have lost , whose wealth was the labour of thine own hand ; and what can have made thee sad , the spring of ... hast raised wishes , which indeed I am not worthy thou shouldst satisfy ; but why should it be thought , that he who was ...
... thou have lost , whose wealth was the labour of thine own hand ; and what can have made thee sad , the spring of ... hast raised wishes , which indeed I am not worthy thou shouldst satisfy ; but why should it be thought , that he who was ...
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... thou hast devoted thy life to meditation , that thy counsel might deliver ignorance from the mazes of error , and deter presumption from the precipice of guilt ; but the book of nature thou hast read without understanding : it is again ...
... thou hast devoted thy life to meditation , that thy counsel might deliver ignorance from the mazes of error , and deter presumption from the precipice of guilt ; but the book of nature thou hast read without understanding : it is again ...
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... thou hast seen , and let this memorial be writ . ten upon the tablet of thy heart . Remember , Almet , that the world in which thou art placed , is but the road to another ; and that happiness depends not upon the path , but the end ...
... thou hast seen , and let this memorial be writ . ten upon the tablet of thy heart . Remember , Almet , that the world in which thou art placed , is but the road to another ; and that happiness depends not upon the path , but the end ...
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... Thou hast sought felicity in temporal things ; and therefore thou art dis- appointed . Let not instruction be lost upon thee ; but go thy way , let thy flock clothe the naked , and thy table feed the hungry ; deliver the poor from ...
... Thou hast sought felicity in temporal things ; and therefore thou art dis- appointed . Let not instruction be lost upon thee ; but go thy way , let thy flock clothe the naked , and thy table feed the hungry ; deliver the poor from ...
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