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 Reading |
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Page ix
... lefs compass , and are likely to ftrain our voice before we have done . We fhall fatigue ourfelves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
... lefs compass , and are likely to ftrain our voice before we have done . We fhall fatigue ourfelves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
Page xvi
... lefs degree of im- > portance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly fome variety in the use of it : " but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphafis often falls on ...
... lefs degree of im- > portance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly fome variety in the use of it : " but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphafis often falls on ...
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... lefs qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we efteem that man profperous , who is raif- ed to a fituation which flatters his paffions , but which corrupts his principles , diforders his temper , and 10 Part I. The English Reader .
... lefs qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we efteem that man profperous , who is raif- ed to a fituation which flatters his paffions , but which corrupts his principles , diforders his temper , and 10 Part I. The English Reader .
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... lefs . If envious people were to ask themselves , whe- ther they would exchange their entire fituations with the perfons envied , ( I mean their minds , paf- fions , notions , as well as their perfons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
... lefs . If envious people were to ask themselves , whe- ther they would exchange their entire fituations with the perfons envied , ( I mean their minds , paf- fions , notions , as well as their perfons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
Page 38
... lefs erred . through ambition than through reverence to her parents , whom he had been taught to respect and obey that he willingly received death , as the only fatisfaction which she could now make to the injured ftate ; and though her ...
... lefs erred . through ambition than through reverence to her parents , whom he had been taught to respect and obey that he willingly received death , as the only fatisfaction which she could now make to the injured ftate ; and though her ...
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