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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... fituation , ) it will be incumbent on his teacher , to carry him back to these primary articulations ; and to fufpend his progrefs , till he become perfectly master of them . It will be in vain to prefs him forward , with the hope of ...
... fituation , ) it will be incumbent on his teacher , to carry him back to these primary articulations ; and to fufpend his progrefs , till he become perfectly master of them . It will be in vain to prefs him forward , with the hope of ...
Page xv
... fituation and quantity . Among a number of perfons , who have had proper op- portunities of learning to read , in the best manner it is now taught , very few could be felected , who , in a given in- ftance , would use the inferior ...
... fituation and quantity . Among a number of perfons , who have had proper op- portunities of learning to read , in the best manner it is now taught , very few could be felected , who , in a given in- ftance , would use the inferior ...
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... qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we efteem that man profperous , who is raif- ed to a fituation which flatters his paffions , but which corrupts his principles , diforders his temper , and 10 Part I. The English Reader .
... qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we efteem that man profperous , who is raif- ed to a fituation which flatters his paffions , but which corrupts his principles , diforders his temper , and 10 Part I. The English Reader .
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... fituation ever make us happy , if now , with fo few caufes of grief , we imagine ourselves miferable ? The evil lies in the ftate of our mind , not in our condition of fortune ; and by no altera- tion of circumftances is likely to be ...
... fituation ever make us happy , if now , with fo few caufes of grief , we imagine ourselves miferable ? The evil lies in the ftate of our mind , not in our condition of fortune ; and by no altera- tion of circumftances is likely to be ...
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... fituation of life , pining away in fecret with concealed griefs ; families weeping over the beloved friends whom they have loft , or , in all the bitterness of anguish , bidding those who are juft expiring the laft adieu . " Never ...
... fituation of life , pining away in fecret with concealed griefs ; families weeping over the beloved friends whom they have loft , or , in all the bitterness of anguish , bidding those who are juft expiring the laft adieu . " Never ...
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againſt alfo Antiparos appeared Archbishop of Cambray arifes becauſe BLAIR bleffed caufe cauſe confider courfe defire DEMOCRITUS diftrefs emphafis evils eyes fafe faid fame fatisfaction fcene fecret feemed felves fenfe fentence fentiments feveral fhall fhining fhort fhould fhow firft firſt fituation fociety folly fome fometimes foon forrow foul fource fpirit friendſhip ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fupport furely happineſs happy Hazael heart heaven HERACLITUS higheſt himſelf honour houſe human intereft itſelf juft Jugurtha labour laft laſt lefs Lord mankind meaſure mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myfelf nature neceffary Numidia obferve occafion ourſelves paffed paffions paufe perfons philofopher pleafing pleaſure poffefs poffible prefent proper Pythias raiſed reafon refpect reft religion rife Sect SECTION ſhall ſtate ſtill temper thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou tion underſtanding uſe virtue whofe wifdom wife