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 Interest of Piety and VirtueCollins & Company, 1818 - 299 páginas |
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... heart , which lay torpid only because their objects were too remote to rouse them . I cannot therefore invest thee with authority , because I would not subject my people to oppression , and because I would not be compelled to punish ...
... heart , which lay torpid only because their objects were too remote to rouse them . I cannot therefore invest thee with authority , because I would not subject my people to oppression , and because I would not be compelled to punish ...
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... heart despise me , thou whom experience has not taught , that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess . Oh ! that for me this lesson had not been written on the tablets of Providence ! I have travelled from Medina ...
... heart despise me , thou whom experience has not taught , that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess . Oh ! that for me this lesson had not been written on the tablets of Providence ! I have travelled from Medina ...
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... heart was filled with a deep melancholy , to see several dropping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity , and catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves . Some were looking up towards the heavens in a ...
... heart was filled with a deep melancholy , to see several dropping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity , and catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves . Some were looking up towards the heavens in a ...
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... heart melted within me , to see my fellow - creatures groaning under their respective burdens , and to consider that prodigious bulk of human calamities which lay before me . There were , however , several persons who gave me great ...
... heart melted within me , to see my fellow - creatures groaning under their respective burdens , and to consider that prodigious bulk of human calamities which lay before me . There were , however , several persons who gave me great ...
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... heart forbear pitying the poor humpbacked gentleman , mentioned in the former paper , who went off a very well - shaped person with a stone in his bladder ; nor the fine gentleman who had struck up this bargain with him , that limped ...
... heart forbear pitying the poor humpbacked gentleman , mentioned in the former paper , who went off a very well - shaped person with a stone in his bladder ; nor the fine gentleman who had struck up this bargain with him , that limped ...
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