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 Interest of Piety and Virtue |
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... honour you can pay the Author of your being , is a behaviour so cheerful as discovers a mind satisfied with its own dispensations . Here my preceptress paused ; and I was going to express my acknowledgments for her discourse , when a ...
... honour you can pay the Author of your being , is a behaviour so cheerful as discovers a mind satisfied with its own dispensations . Here my preceptress paused ; and I was going to express my acknowledgments for her discourse , when a ...
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... honour ; in strong attachment to friends , and the other emotions of a kind and .tender heart . Almost all the plans with which persons who have been liberally educated , begin the world , are connected with honourable views . At that ...
... honour ; in strong attachment to friends , and the other emotions of a kind and .tender heart . Almost all the plans with which persons who have been liberally educated , begin the world , are connected with honourable views . At that ...
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... honours which were continually present to his view.Thus fancy , with as much ease and confidence as if it were a perfect judge of creation , erects a new world to itself , and exults with admiration of its own work . But let us pause ...
... honours which were continually present to his view.Thus fancy , with as much ease and confidence as if it were a perfect judge of creation , erects a new world to itself , and exults with admiration of its own work . But let us pause ...
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... and desire , between present pleasure and future good . In this conflict , the souls of good men are tried , improved , and strengthened . > ܪ In this field , their honours are reaped . Chap . 3 . Argumentative Pieces . 47.
... and desire , between present pleasure and future good . In this conflict , the souls of good men are tried , improved , and strengthened . > ܪ In this field , their honours are reaped . Chap . 3 . Argumentative Pieces . 47.
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... honours are reaped . Here are formed the capital virtues of fortitude , temperance , and self - denial ; moderation in prosperity , patience in adversity , submission to the will of God , and charity and forgiveness to men , amidst the ...
... honours are reaped . Here are formed the capital virtues of fortitude , temperance , and self - denial ; moderation in prosperity , patience in adversity , submission to the will of God , and charity and forgiveness to men , amidst the ...
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