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 ReadingCollins and Company, 1817 - 253 стор. |
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... live well to - day , ( says Martial , ) will be less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his ...
... live well to - day , ( says Martial , ) will be less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his ...
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... live in perpetual hostility with our fellows.This is , for the sake of living , to deprive ourselves of the comfort of life . The man of candour enjoys his situation , whatever it is , with cheerfulness and peace . Prudence directs his ...
... live in perpetual hostility with our fellows.This is , for the sake of living , to deprive ourselves of the comfort of life . The man of candour enjoys his situation , whatever it is , with cheerfulness and peace . Prudence directs his ...
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... live to God and his own soul , and at the same time attend to all the lawful interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and pro- vides for the future . He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked ...
... live to God and his own soul , and at the same time attend to all the lawful interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and pro- vides for the future . He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked ...
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... live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are per- petually wanting , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they endeavour to outvie one another in shadows and appearances . Men of sense have at all times ...
... live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are per- petually wanting , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they endeavour to outvie one another in shadows and appearances . Men of sense have at all times ...
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... live within it ; and naturally sets himself to sale to any one that can give him his price . When Pittacus , after the death of his brother , who had left him a good estate , was offered a great sum of money by the king of Lydia , he ...
... live within it ; and naturally sets himself to sale to any one that can give him his price . When Pittacus , after the death of his brother , who had left him a good estate , was offered a great sum of money by the king of Lydia , he ...
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