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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... enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty propor- tion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among ...
... enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty propor- tion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among ...
Page 63
... enjoy a train of good humour . neighbours , friends , spouse , and children , all , through the unrestrained violence of his temper , become sources of dis- turbance and vexation to him . In vain is affluence ; in vain are health and ...
... enjoy a train of good humour . neighbours , friends , spouse , and children , all , through the unrestrained violence of his temper , become sources of dis- turbance and vexation to him . In vain is affluence ; in vain are health and ...
Page 184
... enjoy . ATTACHMENT TO LIFE . The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; ' Twas therefore said by ancient sages , That love of life increas'd with years , So much , that in our later stages , When pain ...
... enjoy . ATTACHMENT TO LIFE . The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; ' Twas therefore said by ancient sages , That love of life increas'd with years , So much , that in our later stages , When pain ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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Antiparos appear attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comforts cusations dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes fall father feel folly fortune Fundanus gentle give Greek language ground Haman hand happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace person pleasing pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words young youth