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 pages |
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... heart . The reader will perceive , that the Compiler has been soli- citous to recommend to young persons , the perusal of the sa- cred Scriptures , by interspersing through his work , some of the most beautiful and interesting passages ...
... heart . The reader will perceive , that the Compiler has been soli- citous to recommend to young persons , the perusal of the sa- cred Scriptures , by interspersing through his work , some of the most beautiful and interesting passages ...
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... heart . It is essential to a complete reader that he minutely perceives the ideas , and enters into the feelings of the author , whose senti- ments he professes to repeat : for how is it possible to represent clearly to others , what we ...
... heart . It is essential to a complete reader that he minutely perceives the ideas , and enters into the feelings of the author , whose senti- ments he professes to repeat : for how is it possible to represent clearly to others , what we ...
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... heart , which has not its peculiar tone or note of the voice , by which it is to be expressed and which is suited exactly to the degree of internal feeling . It is chiefly in the proper use of these tones , that the life , spirit ...
... heart , which has not its peculiar tone or note of the voice , by which it is to be expressed and which is suited exactly to the degree of internal feeling . It is chiefly in the proper use of these tones , that the life , spirit ...
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... heart . From our eagerness to grasp , we strangle and des- troy pleasure . A temperate spirit , and moderate expectations , are excellent safeguards of the mind in this uncertain and changing state . There is nothing , except simplicity ...
... heart . From our eagerness to grasp , we strangle and des- troy pleasure . A temperate spirit , and moderate expectations , are excellent safeguards of the mind in this uncertain and changing state . There is nothing , except simplicity ...
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... heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delica- cy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , we have established our principles , let us not suffer them to be ...
... heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delica- cy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , we have established our principles , let us not suffer them to be ...
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Page 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.