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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... ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is also heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of sound ; but always pitch it on our ordinary ...
... ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is also heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of sound ; but always pitch it on our ordinary ...
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... ourselves ; and begin to enjoy the peace which it will certainly bring ? 8. If others have behaved improperly , let us leave them to their own folly , without becoming the victims of their ca- price , and punishing ourselves on their ...
... ourselves ; and begin to enjoy the peace which it will certainly bring ? 8. If others have behaved improperly , let us leave them to their own folly , without becoming the victims of their ca- price , and punishing ourselves on their ...
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... ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time . If we are careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect others . This imperfection which we observe in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves , in ...
... ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time . If we are careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect others . This imperfection which we observe in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves , in ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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