The English ReaderG.J. Loomis, 1830 - 252 стор. |
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... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION II HE desire of improvement , discover a liberal Chap . 1 . 19 Select Sentences , & c .
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION II HE desire of improvement , discover a liberal Chap . 1 . 19 Select Sentences , & c .
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Lindley Murray. sions is tamed , and our minds are formed to sobriety and reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicis- situdes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues ...
Lindley Murray. sions is tamed , and our minds are formed to sobriety and reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicis- situdes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues ...
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... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion cre- ates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment , can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ...
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion cre- ates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment , can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ...
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... reflections ! 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wis dom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons ...
... reflections ! 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wis dom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons ...
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... reflecting , the air grew blacker , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation . 10 He now resolved to do what yet remained in his pow- er , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and try to find some issue where the wood might ...
... reflecting , the air grew blacker , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation . 10 He now resolved to do what yet remained in his pow- er , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and try to find some issue where the wood might ...
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Сторінка 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.