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 33
... rich embroidery , placed for his favourite . Side- boards , loaded with gold and silver plate , of immense value , were arranged in the apartment . 3. Pages of extraordinary beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his ...
... rich embroidery , placed for his favourite . Side- boards , loaded with gold and silver plate , of immense value , were arranged in the apartment . 3. Pages of extraordinary beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his ...
Page 40
... rich . " 6. Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his cham- ber for six months , to deliberate how he should grow rich . He sometimes proposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings of India ; and sometimes ...
... rich . " 6. Full of his new resolution , he shut himself in his cham- ber for six months , to deliberate how he should grow rich . He sometimes proposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings of India ; and sometimes ...
Page 62
... rich ; but , in return , he is free from many embarrassments to which they are subject . By the simplicity and uniformity of his life , he is delivered from that variety of cares , which perplex those who have great affairs to manage ...
... rich ; but , in return , he is free from many embarrassments to which they are subject . By the simplicity and uniformity of his life , he is delivered from that variety of cares , which perplex those who have great affairs to manage ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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