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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 sider |
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... envy , hatred , malice , anger ; but is in constant possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disappointing , is in constant search of care , solici tude , remorse , and confusion ...
... envy , hatred , malice , anger ; but is in constant possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disappointing , is in constant search of care , solici tude , remorse , and confusion ...
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... envy . Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy , not so much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and 2 ลง Part 1 . The English Reader .
... envy . Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy , not so much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and 2 ลง Part 1 . The English Reader .
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... envious people were to ask themselves whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons envied , [ I mean their minds , passions , notions , well as their persoas , fortunes , and dignities , ] — I presume the self ...
... envious people were to ask themselves whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons envied , [ I mean their minds , passions , notions , well as their persoas , fortunes , and dignities , ] — I presume the self ...
Side 14
... envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians . Where so much is suffered in common , little room is left for envy . There is more occasion for pity and sympathy ...
... envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians . Where so much is suffered in common , little room is left for envy . There is more occasion for pity and sympathy ...
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... envy and admira- tion but his progress was unequal , and interrupted by a thousand caprices . When Pleasure warbled in the valley , be mingled in her train . When Pr : beckoned towards the precipice , he ventured to the tottering Chap ...
... envy and admira- tion but his progress was unequal , and interrupted by a thousand caprices . When Pleasure warbled in the valley , be mingled in her train . When Pr : beckoned towards the precipice , he ventured to the tottering Chap ...
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Side 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.