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 vii
... poffible to reprefent clearly to others what we have but faint or inaccurate conceptions of ourselves ? If there were no other benefits refulting from the art of reading well , than the neceffity it lays us under , of precifely ...
... poffible to reprefent clearly to others what we have but faint or inaccurate conceptions of ourselves ? If there were no other benefits refulting from the art of reading well , than the neceffity it lays us under , of precifely ...
Page viii
... poffible . After all the directions that can be offered on these points , much will remain to be taught by the living inftructers much will be attainable by no other means , than the force of example influencing the imitative powers of ...
... poffible . After all the directions that can be offered on these points , much will remain to be taught by the living inftructers much will be attainable by no other means , than the force of example influencing the imitative powers of ...
Page x
... poffible to offend by speaking too loud . This extreme hurts the ear , by making the voice come upon it in rumbling indistinct maffes . " By the habit of reading , when young , in a loud and vehement manner , the voice becomes fixed in ...
... poffible to offend by speaking too loud . This extreme hurts the ear , by making the voice come upon it in rumbling indistinct maffes . " By the habit of reading , when young , in a loud and vehement manner , the voice becomes fixed in ...
Page 74
... poffible for human nature to en- dure fo many repeated provocations ? or to bear calmly with fuch unreasonable behaviour ? " - My brother ! if thou canft bear with no inftances of unreasonable behaviour , withdraw thyself from the world ...
... poffible for human nature to en- dure fo many repeated provocations ? or to bear calmly with fuch unreasonable behaviour ? " - My brother ! if thou canft bear with no inftances of unreasonable behaviour , withdraw thyself from the world ...
Page 80
... poffible there may be fuch a fenfe in ourselves hereafter , or in créatures which are at prefent more exalted than ourselves . By the herp of glaffes , we fee many stars , which we do not dif cover with our naked eyes ; and the finer ...
... poffible there may be fuch a fenfe in ourselves hereafter , or in créatures which are at prefent more exalted than ourselves . By the herp of glaffes , we fee many stars , which we do not dif cover with our naked eyes ; and the finer ...
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