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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... hours I found myself in the streets of Medina , indigent and friendless , exposed to hunger , and derision , with all the habits of luxury , and all the sensibility of pride . Oh ! let not thy heart despise me , thou whom experience has ...
... hours I found myself in the streets of Medina , indigent and friendless , exposed to hunger , and derision , with all the habits of luxury , and all the sensibility of pride . Oh ! let not thy heart despise me , thou whom experience has ...
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... hour , pulled the old gentleman by the beard , and had like to have knocked his brains out ; so that meeting the true father , who came towards him with a fit of the gripes , he begged him to take his son again , and give him back his ...
... hour , pulled the old gentleman by the beard , and had like to have knocked his brains out ; so that meeting the true father , who came towards him with a fit of the gripes , he begged him to take his son again , and give him back his ...
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... hour . The heap was at last distributed among the two sexes , who made a most piteous sight , as they wandered up and down under the pressure of their several burdens . The whole plain was filled with murmurs and complaints , groans and ...
... hour . The heap was at last distributed among the two sexes , who made a most piteous sight , as they wandered up and down under the pressure of their several burdens . The whole plain was filled with murmurs and complaints , groans and ...
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... hours to lamentation and wo . : Misery 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 of every sense of pleasure , and the everlasting exercise of ...
... hours to lamentation and wo . : Misery 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 of every sense of pleasure , and the everlasting exercise of ...
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... hour of death , he considers the pains of his dissolution to be only the breaking down of that partition , which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him ...
... hour of death , he considers the pains of his dissolution to be only the breaking down of that partition , which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him ...
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