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 Reading |
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... still more faint than " those which indicate agreeable emotions : and , on all " occafions , preserve yourselves so far from being affected " with the fubject , as to be able to proceed through it , with that easy and masterly manner ...
... still more faint than " those which indicate agreeable emotions : and , on all " occafions , preserve yourselves so far from being affected " with the fubject , as to be able to proceed through it , with that easy and masterly manner ...
Page 24
... still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the confequences have been , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ? If , with all its troubles , we are in danger of being too much attached to it , how entirely would it ...
... still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the confequences have been , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ? If , with all its troubles , we are in danger of being too much attached to it , how entirely would it ...
Page 57
... still more tender con- nexions . What refource can this world afford them ? I prefents a dark and dreary waste , through which there does not iffue a fingle ray of Comfort Every delufive prospect of ambition is now at end ; long ...
... still more tender con- nexions . What refource can this world afford them ? I prefents a dark and dreary waste , through which there does not iffue a fingle ray of Comfort Every delufive prospect of ambition is now at end ; long ...
Page 79
... still enlarged the idea , and fuppofed another heaven of funs and worlds , rifing ftill above this which we difcovered ; and these still enlightened by a fuperior firmament oft luminaries , which are planted at fo great a dif tance ...
... still enlarged the idea , and fuppofed another heaven of funs and worlds , rifing ftill above this which we difcovered ; and these still enlightened by a fuperior firmament oft luminaries , which are planted at fo great a dif tance ...
Page 82
... still find itself within the embrace of its Creator , and encompaffed by the immensity of the Godhead . In this confideration of the Almighty's omni- prefence and omnifcience , every uncomfortable thought vanishes . He cannot but regard ...
... still find itself within the embrace of its Creator , and encompaffed by the immensity of the Godhead . In this confideration of the Almighty's omni- prefence and omnifcience , every uncomfortable thought vanishes . He cannot but regard ...
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