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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... vanity of those pursuits which have human approbation for their chief object , 111 3. The folly and misery of idleness , 114 4. The choice of our situation in life , a point of great importance , 119 5. No life pleasing to God , that is ...
... vanity of those pursuits which have human approbation for their chief object , 111 3. The folly and misery of idleness , 114 4. The choice of our situation in life , a point of great importance , 119 5. No life pleasing to God , that is ...
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... vanity of human wishes , 10. The vanity of human wishes continued , APPENDIX , 211 213 216 218 221 226 231 235 241 246 251 10 CONTENTS . Page .
... vanity of human wishes , 10. The vanity of human wishes continued , APPENDIX , 211 213 216 218 221 226 231 235 241 246 251 10 CONTENTS . Page .
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... vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another , Surely , said I , man is but a shadow , and life a dream . Whilst I was thus musing , I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me , where I ...
... vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another , Surely , said I , man is but a shadow , and life a dream . Whilst I was thus musing , I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me , where I ...
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... vanities of the past , I do not wish that the fu- ' ture should arrive . Yet I tremble lest it should be cut off ; and my heart sinks , when I anticipate the moment , in which eternity shall close over the vacuity of my life , like the ...
... vanities of the past , I do not wish that the fu- ' ture should arrive . Yet I tremble lest it should be cut off ; and my heart sinks , when I anticipate the moment , in which eternity shall close over the vacuity of my life , like the ...
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... vanity , are the ingredients of which enthusiasm is composed : but from all these , except the first , the apostle appears to have been wholly free . That he had great fervour of zeal , both when a Jew and when a Christian , in ...
... vanity , are the ingredients of which enthusiasm is composed : but from all these , except the first , the apostle appears to have been wholly free . That he had great fervour of zeal , both when a Jew and when a Christian , in ...
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