Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry : Designed to Improve the Highest Class of Learners in Reading to Establish a Taste for Just and Accurate Composition, and to Promote the Interests of Piety and Virtue |
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... duty of all sublunary beings ; and every enjoyment is an offence to the Deity , who is to be worshipped only by the mortification of every sense of pleasure , and the everlast- ing exercise of sighs and tears . " This melancholy picture ...
... duty of all sublunary beings ; and every enjoyment is an offence to the Deity , who is to be worshipped only by the mortification of every sense of pleasure , and the everlast- ing exercise of sighs and tears . " This melancholy picture ...
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... duty , but where it is necessary to avoid guilt , or to do good ; nor plea- sure a crime , but where it strengthens the influence of bad in . clinations , or lessens the generous activity of virtue . 32 PART I. SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH ...
... duty , but where it is necessary to avoid guilt , or to do good ; nor plea- sure a crime , but where it strengthens the influence of bad in . clinations , or lessens the generous activity of virtue . 32 PART I. SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH ...
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... duties of a relative and de- pendent being . RELIGION is not confined to cells and closets , nor restrained to sullen retirement . These are the gloomy doctrines of SUPERSTITION , by which she endeavours to break those chains of ...
... duties of a relative and de- pendent being . RELIGION is not confined to cells and closets , nor restrained to sullen retirement . These are the gloomy doctrines of SUPERSTITION , by which she endeavours to break those chains of ...
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... duty engaged a good man to take some part in the business of the world , the task , when submitted to , would prove distasteful . Even the preservation of life would be slighted , if he were not bound to it by the authority of God ...
... duty engaged a good man to take some part in the business of the world , the task , when submitted to , would prove distasteful . Even the preservation of life would be slighted , if he were not bound to it by the authority of God ...
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... in the course of his duty . Ample rewards were promised to vir . tue ; but these rewards were left , as yet , in obscurity and distant prospect . The impressions of sense were so balanced CHAP . III . 51 ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES .
... in the course of his duty . Ample rewards were promised to vir . tue ; but these rewards were left , as yet , in obscurity and distant prospect . The impressions of sense were so balanced CHAP . III . 51 ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES .
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