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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... youth ; its materials are taken from the most correct and elegant writers and as the pieces are generally more extended , and contain a greater variety of style and composition , it is presumed that it forms a proper " Sequel to the ...
... youth ; its materials are taken from the most correct and elegant writers and as the pieces are generally more extended , and contain a greater variety of style and composition , it is presumed that it forms a proper " Sequel to the ...
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... Youth the proper season for gaining knowledge , and forming religious habits , 3. The truth of Christianity proved , from the conversion of the Apostle Paul , CHAPTER IV . DESCRIPTIVE PIECES . SECT . 1. The heavens and the earth show ...
... Youth the proper season for gaining knowledge , and forming religious habits , 3. The truth of Christianity proved , from the conversion of the Apostle Paul , CHAPTER IV . DESCRIPTIVE PIECES . SECT . 1. The heavens and the earth show ...
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... angry father . The graceless youth , in less than a quarter of an hour , pulled the old gentleman by the beard , and had like to have knocked his brains 20 PART I SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH READER . The same subject continued,
... angry father . The graceless youth , in less than a quarter of an hour , pulled the old gentleman by the beard , and had like to have knocked his brains 20 PART I SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH READER . The same subject continued,
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... youth and social delight , and here consecrate the solitary hours to lamentation and wo . Mise- ry is the duty of all sublunary beings ; and every enjoyment is an offence to the Deity , who is to be worshipped only by the mortification ...
... youth and social delight , and here consecrate the solitary hours to lamentation and wo . Mise- ry is the duty of all sublunary beings ; and every enjoyment is an offence to the Deity , who is to be worshipped only by the mortification ...
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... youth and beauty ap- peared in all her form ; effulgent glories sparkled in her eyes , and their awful splendours were softened by the gen- tlest looks of compassion and peace . At her approach , the frightful spectre , who had before ...
... youth and beauty ap- peared in all her form ; effulgent glories sparkled in her eyes , and their awful splendours were softened by the gen- tlest looks of compassion and peace . At her approach , the frightful spectre , who had before ...
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