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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... vanity of those pursuits which have human appro- bation for their chief object , 128 3. The folly and misery of idleness , 132 4. The choice of our situation in life , a point of great im- portance , • 138 5. No life pleasing to God ...
... vanity of those pursuits which have human appro- bation for their chief object , 128 3. The folly and misery of idleness , 132 4. The choice of our situation in life , a point of great im- portance , • 138 5. No life pleasing to God ...
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... vanity of human wishes , 10. The vanity of human wishes continued , APPENDIX , 250 253 257 259 263 269 • 275 280 • 288 293 299 ΤΟ THE ENGLISH READER . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE vi CONTENTS .
... vanity of human wishes , 10. The vanity of human wishes continued , APPENDIX , 250 253 257 259 263 269 • 275 280 • 288 293 299 ΤΟ THE ENGLISH READER . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE vi CONTENTS .
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... vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another , Surely , said I , man is but a shadow , and life a dream . Whilst I was thus musing , I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me , where I ...
... vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another , Surely , said I , man is but a shadow , and life a dream . Whilst I was thus musing , I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me , where I ...
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... vanities of the past , I do not wish that the fu ture should arrive . Yet I tremble lest it should be cut off ; and my heart sinks , when I anticipate the moment , in which eternity shall close over the vacuity of my life , like the sea ...
... vanities of the past , I do not wish that the fu ture should arrive . Yet I tremble lest it should be cut off ; and my heart sinks , when I anticipate the moment , in which eternity shall close over the vacuity of my life , like the sea ...
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... 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 , both when a Jew , and when a Christian , in ...
... 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 , both when a Jew , and when a Christian , in ...
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