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 VirtueCollins & Company, 1817 - 364 páginas |
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... SECTION V. The Vision of Almet . Fortune her gifts may variously dispose : And these be happy call'd , unhappy those ; But Heaven's just balance equal will appear , While those are plac'd in Hope , and these in Fear . POLE . ALMET , the ...
... SECTION V. The Vision of Almet . Fortune her gifts may variously dispose : And these be happy call'd , unhappy those ; But Heaven's just balance equal will appear , While those are plac'd in Hope , and these in Fear . POLE . ALMET , the ...
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... SECTION VI . HAWKESWORTH . Religion and Superstition contrasted . A VISION . I HAD lately a very remarkable dream , which made so strong an impression on me , that I remember every word of it ; and if you are not better employed , you ...
... SECTION VI . HAWKESWORTH . Religion and Superstition contrasted . A VISION . I HAD lately a very remarkable dream , which made so strong an impression on me , that I remember every word of it ; and if you are not better employed , you ...
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... , when a ring of bells from the neighbouring village , and the new risen sun darting his beams through my windows , awoke me . CARTER . CHAPTER II . DIDACTIC PIECES . SECTION 1 . Vicious 28 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
... , when a ring of bells from the neighbouring village , and the new risen sun darting his beams through my windows , awoke me . CARTER . CHAPTER II . DIDACTIC PIECES . SECTION 1 . Vicious 28 Part 1 . Sequel to the English Reader .
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... SECTION 1 . Vicious connections the ruin of virtue . AMONG the numerous causes which introduce cor- ruption into the heart , and accelerate its growth , none is more unhappily powerful than the contagion which is diffused by bad ...
... SECTION 1 . Vicious connections the ruin of virtue . AMONG the numerous causes which introduce cor- ruption into the heart , and accelerate its growth , none is more unhappily powerful than the contagion which is diffused by bad ...
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... SECTION II . On cheerfulness . I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth . The latter I consider as an act , the former as a habit of the mind . Mirth is short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . They who are subject ...
... SECTION II . On cheerfulness . I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth . The latter I consider as an act , the former as a habit of the mind . Mirth is short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . They who are subject ...
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