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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... Heaven . Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends generally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious but an ill one more contemptible . Vice ...
... Heaven . Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends generally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious but an ill one more contemptible . Vice ...
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... heaven . If we delay till to - morrow what ought to be done to - day , we overcharge the morrow with a burden which belongs not to it . We load the wheels of time , and prevent them from carrying us along smoothly . He who every morning ...
... heaven . If we delay till to - morrow what ought to be done to - day , we overcharge the morrow with a burden which belongs not to it . We load the wheels of time , and prevent them from carrying us along smoothly . He who every morning ...
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... heaven He continued to " walk with God , " when the world apostatized from him . He pleased God , and was beloved of him ; so that living among sinners , he was translated to heaven without seeing death ; " Yea , speedily was he taken ...
... heaven He continued to " walk with God , " when the world apostatized from him . He pleased God , and was beloved of him ; so that living among sinners , he was translated to heaven without seeing death ; " Yea , speedily was he taken ...
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... heaven . In proportion as they faded away and went out , several stars and planets appeared one after another , till the whole firmament was in a glow . The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened , by the season ...
... heaven . In proportion as they faded away and went out , several stars and planets appeared one after another , till the whole firmament was in a glow . The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened , by the season ...
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... heavens the work of thy fingers ; the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained ; what is man that thou art mindful of him ... heaven of suns and worlds , rising still above this which we discovered ; and these still en- lightened by a ...
... heavens the work of thy fingers ; the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained ; what is man that thou art mindful of him ... heaven of suns and worlds , rising still above this which we discovered ; and these still en- lightened by a ...
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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.