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 68
... observe in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves , in some degree , to creatures of the highest capacities ... observation is stinted to a certain number of objects . The sphere in which we move , and act , and understand , is of a ...
... observe in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves , in some degree , to creatures of the highest capacities ... observation is stinted to a certain number of objects . The sphere in which we move , and act , and understand , is of a ...
Page 134
... observe a sort of people , who , though they are themselves under the abject dominion of every vice , show a kind of malicious resentment against the errors of others ; and are most severe upon those whom they most resemble ? Yet ...
... observe a sort of people , who , though they are themselves under the abject dominion of every vice , show a kind of malicious resentment against the errors of others ; and are most severe upon those whom they most resemble ? Yet ...
Page 155
... observation I have enlarged upon : " Pitch upon that course of life which is the most excellent , and custom will render ... observe , that the practice of religion will not only be attended with that pleasure which naturally accompanies ...
... observation I have enlarged upon : " Pitch upon that course of life which is the most excellent , and custom will render ... observe , that the practice of religion will not only be attended with that pleasure which naturally accompanies ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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