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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... writings were unexception able . Some of them have had unguarded moments , in which they have written what is not proper to come under the notice of youth . He must not therefore be understood as recommending every production of all the ...
... writings were unexception able . Some of them have had unguarded moments , in which they have written what is not proper to come under the notice of youth . He must not therefore be understood as recommending every production of all the ...
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... writings breathe nothing but the strictest morality ; obedience to ma- gistrate , order , and government ; with the utmost abhor- rence of all licentiousness , idleness , or loose behaviour , under the cloak of religion . We no where ...
... writings breathe nothing but the strictest morality ; obedience to ma- gistrate , order , and government ; with the utmost abhor- rence of all licentiousness , idleness , or loose behaviour , under the cloak of religion . We no where ...
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... writings , or know of his life . He represents himself as the least of the apostles , and not meet to be called an apostle . He says that he is the chief of sinners ; and he prefers , in the strongest terms , universal benevolence to ...
... writings , or know of his life . He represents himself as the least of the apostles , and not meet to be called an apostle . He says that he is the chief of sinners ; and he prefers , in the strongest terms , universal benevolence to ...
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... writing , to which laws owe their precision and permanency . You subdued monsters ; I civilized men . It is from untamed passions , not from wild beasts , that the greatest evils arise to human society . By wisdom , by art , by the ...
... writing , to which laws owe their precision and permanency . You subdued monsters ; I civilized men . It is from untamed passions , not from wild beasts , that the greatest evils arise to human society . By wisdom , by art , by the ...
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... writings of sages point out a private path of virtue ; and show that the best empire is self - govern- ment , and that subduing our passions is the noblest of con- quests . HERCULES . The true spirit of heroism acts by a generous ...
... writings of sages point out a private path of virtue ; and show that the best empire is self - govern- ment , and that subduing our passions is the noblest of con- quests . HERCULES . The true spirit of heroism acts by a generous ...
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