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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... thee , ” said Omar , “ belongs to Him only from whom we should receive with humility both good and evil ; yet hide not thy life from me ; for the burden which I cannot remove , I may at least enable thee to sustain . ” Hassan fixed his ...
... thee , ” said Omar , “ belongs to Him only from whom we should receive with humility both good and evil ; yet hide not thy life from me ; for the burden which I cannot remove , I may at least enable thee to sustain . ” Hassan fixed his ...
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... thee I have at once derived humility and wisdom . " I answered , “ Mock not thy servant , who is but a worm before thee ; life and death are in thy hand , and happiness and misery are the daughters of thy will , ” “ Hassan , ” he ...
... thee I have at once derived humility and wisdom . " I answered , “ Mock not thy servant , who is but a worm before thee ; life and death are in thy hand , and happiness and misery are the daughters of thy will , ” “ Hassan , ” he ...
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... thee . Thou art content , and hast therefore neither avarice nor ambition . To exalt thee , would destroy the simplicity of thy life , and diminish that happiness which I have no power either to increase or to continue . ” — He then ...
... thee . Thou art content , and hast therefore neither avarice nor ambition . To exalt thee , would destroy the simplicity of thy life , and diminish that happiness which I have no power either to increase or to continue . ” — He then ...
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... thee for crimes which I first enabled thee to commit . But as I have taken from thee that which I cannot restore , I will at least gratify the wishes that I excited , lest thy heart accuse me of injustice , and thou continue still a ...
... thee for crimes which I first enabled thee to commit . But as I have taken from thee that which I cannot restore , I will at least gratify the wishes that I excited , lest thy heart accuse me of injustice , and thou continue still a ...
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... thee , thou wast content with povertỳ and labour That which then became the object , was also the bound of thy hope ; and he , whose utmost hope is disappointed , must inevitably be wretched . If thy supreme desire had been the delights ...
... thee , thou wast content with povertỳ and labour That which then became the object , was also the bound of thy hope ; and he , whose utmost hope is disappointed , must inevitably be wretched . If thy supreme desire had been the delights ...
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