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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 頁 |
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... makes from without . Compassonate affections , even when they draw tears from our eyes for human misery , convey satisfac- tion to the heart . C They who have nothing to give , can often afford Chap . 1 . 1 Select Sentences .
... makes from without . Compassonate affections , even when they draw tears from our eyes for human misery , convey satisfac- tion to the heart . C They who have nothing to give , can often afford Chap . 1 . 1 Select Sentences .
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... misery , more pleasure than pain , in the condition of man . Society , when formed , requires distinctions of pro- perty , diversity of conditions , subordination of ranks , and a multiplicity of occupations , in order to advance the ...
... misery , more pleasure than pain , in the condition of man . Society , when formed , requires distinctions of pro- perty , diversity of conditions , subordination of ranks , and a multiplicity of occupations , in order to advance the ...
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... misery than he can bring on the object of his resentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages , been repre sented as placed on the summit of a hill ; in the as- cent of which , labor is requisite , and difficulties are to be ...
... misery than he can bring on the object of his resentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages , been repre sented as placed on the summit of a hill ; in the as- cent of which , labor is requisite , and difficulties are to be ...
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... misery does the vicious man secretly endure ! Ad- versity how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver , in com- parison with those of guilt ! When we have no pleasure in goodness , we may with cer tainty conclude the reason to be , that ...
... misery does the vicious man secretly endure ! Ad- versity how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver , in com- parison with those of guilt ! When we have no pleasure in goodness , we may with cer tainty conclude the reason to be , that ...
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... misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious but an ill one more contemptible . Vice is in- famous , though in a prince ; and virtue honorable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius , employed in little things ...
... misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious but an ill one more contemptible . Vice is in- famous , though in a prince ; and virtue honorable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius , employed in little things ...
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第 181 頁 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.