An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindSeward and Williams, 1813 - 226 pages |
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... soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events and governs futurity . Phi- losophy is then only valuable , when it ...
... soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events and governs futurity . Phi- losophy is then only valuable , when it ...
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... souls ; without this the highest state of life is in- sipid , and with it , the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . V. HONORABLE age is not that which standeth in length of time , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the ...
... souls ; without this the highest state of life is in- sipid , and with it , the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . V. HONORABLE age is not that which standeth in length of time , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the ...
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... soul . He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn any thing ; for this reason , because they understand every thing ...
... soul . He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn any thing ; for this reason , because they understand every thing ...
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... soul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out , For our bad neighbors make us early stirrers : Which is both healthful , and good husbandry : Besides they are our outward consciences , And preachers to us all ...
... soul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out , For our bad neighbors make us early stirrers : Which is both healthful , and good husbandry : Besides they are our outward consciences , And preachers to us all ...
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... soul , and subdues every irregular appetite . 7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumspec- tion , of her female acquaintance especially . She has re- marked , that what renders women prone to detraction , is talking of their ...
... soul , and subdues every irregular appetite . 7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumspec- tion , of her female acquaintance especially . She has re- marked , that what renders women prone to detraction , is talking of their ...
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