The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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If , however , any of his readers should think it contains too great a proportion of
the former , it may be some apology to observe , that in the existing publications
designed for the perusal oi young persons , the preponderance is greatly on the ...
If , however , any of his readers should think it contains too great a proportion of
the former , it may be some apology to observe , that in the existing publications
designed for the perusal oi young persons , the preponderance is greatly on the ...
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SECTION I . DILIGENCE , industry , and proper improvement of time , are
material duties of the young . The acquisition of knowledge , is one of the most
honourable occupations of youth . Whatever useful or engaging endowments we
possess ...
SECTION I . DILIGENCE , industry , and proper improvement of time , are
material duties of the young . The acquisition of knowledge , is one of the most
honourable occupations of youth . Whatever useful or engaging endowments we
possess ...
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the gay , young , noble , ingenious , accomplished , and most wretched Altamont ,
expired ! Ti If this is a man of pleasure , what is a man of pain ? How quick , how
total , is the transit of such persons ! In what a dismal gloom they set for ever !
the gay , young , noble , ingenious , accomplished , and most wretched Altamont ,
expired ! Ti If this is a man of pleasure , what is a man of pain ? How quick , how
total , is the transit of such persons ! In what a dismal gloom they set for ever !
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Letter from PLINY , to MARCELLINUS on the death of an amiable young woman .
I WRITE this under the utmost oppression of sorrow : the youngest daughter of my
friend Fundanus , is dead ! Never surely was there a more agreeable , and ...
Letter from PLINY , to MARCELLINUS on the death of an amiable young woman .
I WRITE this under the utmost oppression of sorrow : the youngest daughter of my
friend Fundanus , is dead ! Never surely was there a more agreeable , and ...
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An address to young persons CHAPTER IX . Promiscuous Pieces . Sect . 1 .
Earthquake at Calabria , in the year 1638 - 2 . Letter from Pliny to Germinius - 2 .
Letters from Pliny to Marcellinus , on the death of an amiable young woman ...
An address to young persons CHAPTER IX . Promiscuous Pieces . Sect . 1 .
Earthquake at Calabria , in the year 1638 - 2 . Letter from Pliny to Germinius - 2 .
Letters from Pliny to Marcellinus , on the death of an amiable young woman ...
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