The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingCollins and Company, 1817 - 253 頁 |
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第 xxx 頁
... possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disap- pointing , is in constant search of care ' , solicitude ' , remorse ' , and confusion ' . " To advise the ignorant ' , relieve the ...
... possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disap- pointing , is in constant search of care ' , solicitude ' , remorse ' , and confusion ' . " To advise the ignorant ' , relieve the ...
第 xxxv 頁
... possessions can make the guilty mind happy , 22 2. Change of external condition often adverse to virtue , 23 3. Haman ; or the misery of pride , 24 4. Lady Jane Grey , 26 5. Ortogrul ; or the vanity of riches , 30 6 The hill of science ...
... possessions can make the guilty mind happy , 22 2. Change of external condition often adverse to virtue , 23 3. Haman ; or the misery of pride , 24 4. Lady Jane Grey , 26 5. Ortogrul ; or the vanity of riches , 30 6 The hill of science ...
第 2 頁
... possession is to be chiefly esti- mated , by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell ...
... possession is to be chiefly esti- mated , by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell ...
第 7 頁
... possession , as violent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour every object . object . By the torms which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without ...
... possession , as violent anger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; distorts the appearance , and blackens the colour every object . object . By the torms which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without ...
第 18 頁
... possession of our mind , we may date from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion which generally affords the first introduction to vice . The irregular gratifications into which it occasionally ...
... possession of our mind , we may date from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion which generally affords the first introduction to vice . The irregular gratifications into which it occasionally ...
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