The Understanding Reader, Or, Knowledge Before Oratory: Being a New Selection of Lessons Suited to the Understanding and Capacities of Youth and Designed for Their Improvement ...Adams & Wilder, 1804 - 224 pages |
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... young ; that at an early age they be led into inquiries after the meaning of words , the fenfe of the writer , not only generally , as it refpects the subject of which he treats , but alfo particularly , in every phrafe and fentence ...
... young ; that at an early age they be led into inquiries after the meaning of words , the fenfe of the writer , not only generally , as it refpects the subject of which he treats , but alfo particularly , in every phrafe and fentence ...
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... improvements by which the understanding and the facul ties of youth may be more effectually called forth into DANIEL ADAMS . operation . I cominler , Sept. 29 , 1803 . APPLICATON Addrefs to a young Life is a flower S vi REFA C E.
... improvements by which the understanding and the facul ties of youth may be more effectually called forth into DANIEL ADAMS . operation . I cominler , Sept. 29 , 1803 . APPLICATON Addrefs to a young Life is a flower S vi REFA C E.
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... young Life is a flower S Student ΚΝΟΣ 10 13 Knowledge 14 Efiber BIBLE 16 Sec . 2. made Queen 17 3. Haman promoted 4. Efther's banquet 5. Mordecai rewarded 122 19 22 24 Yet all this availeth me nothing GARRULUS 26 Address of a Mafter to ...
... young Life is a flower S Student ΚΝΟΣ 10 13 Knowledge 14 Efiber BIBLE 16 Sec . 2. made Queen 17 3. Haman promoted 4. Efther's banquet 5. Mordecai rewarded 122 19 22 24 Yet all this availeth me nothing GARRULUS 26 Address of a Mafter to ...
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... Young Student . I. OUR parents have watched over your YOUR helpless infancy , and conducted you , with many a pang , to an age at which your mind is capable of manly improvement . 2. Their folicitude ftill continues , and no trouble nor ...
... Young Student . I. OUR parents have watched over your YOUR helpless infancy , and conducted you , with many a pang , to an age at which your mind is capable of manly improvement . 2. Their folicitude ftill continues , and no trouble nor ...
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... young ; that at an early age they be led into inquiries after the meaning of words , the sense of the writer , not only generally , as it refpects the fubject of which he treats , but also particularly , in every phrafe and fentence ...
... young ; that at an early age they be led into inquiries after the meaning of words , the sense of the writer , not only generally , as it refpects the fubject of which he treats , but also particularly , in every phrafe and fentence ...
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Page 46 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 177 - Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people : And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Page 7 - Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Page 10 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 4 - And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Page 47 - I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles. And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
Page 7 - All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live : but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Page 6 - There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws, therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 1 - LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Page 4 - And the thing pleased the king; and he did so. Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.