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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Page xvii
... expreffes of high importance , by a multi- tude of strong emphasis , we foon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every fentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a B. 2 INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... expreffes of high importance , by a multi- tude of strong emphasis , we foon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every fentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a B. 2 INTRODUCTION . xvii.
Page xxi
... foon tired by continued action : to the hearer , that the ear alfo may be relieved from the fatigue , which it would otherwife endure from a continuity of found ; and that the under- ftanding may have fufficient time to mark the ...
... foon tired by continued action : to the hearer , that the ear alfo may be relieved from the fatigue , which it would otherwife endure from a continuity of found ; and that the under- ftanding may have fufficient time to mark the ...
Page 30
... foon as he came to his own houfe , he was forced to difclofe the agony of his mind . He gathered to- with Zerefh his gether his friends and family , wife . " He told them of the glory of his riches , " and the multitude of his children ...
... foon as he came to his own houfe , he was forced to difclofe the agony of his mind . He gathered to- with Zerefh his gether his friends and family , wife . " He told them of the glory of his riches , " and the multitude of his children ...
Page 34
... foon made him weary of himself , and he long- ed to be perfuaded that he was great and happy He was courteous and liberal ; he gave all thats approached him hopes of pleafing him , and all who should pleafe him , hopes of being rewarded ...
... foon made him weary of himself , and he long- ed to be perfuaded that he was great and happy He was courteous and liberal ; he gave all thats approached him hopes of pleafing him , and all who should pleafe him , hopes of being rewarded ...
Page 37
... foon rejoin each other in a scene , where their affections would be for ever united ; and where death , disappointment , and misfortunes , could no longer have accefs to them , or difturl their eternal felicity . It had been intended to ...
... foon rejoin each other in a scene , where their affections would be for ever united ; and where death , disappointment , and misfortunes , could no longer have accefs to them , or difturl their eternal felicity . It had been intended to ...
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