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 49
... pleasing exercise of the mind , than gratitude . It is accompanied with so great inward sa- tisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the per- formance . It is not like the practice of many other virtues , difficult and ...
... pleasing exercise of the mind , than gratitude . It is accompanied with so great inward sa- tisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the per- formance . It is not like the practice of many other virtues , difficult and ...
Page 79
... pleasing and tri- umphant consideration in religion , than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature , without ever arriving at a period in it . To look up- on the soul as going on from ...
... pleasing and tri- umphant consideration in religion , than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature , without ever arriving at a period in it . To look up- on the soul as going on from ...
Page 238
... pleasing folly's idle brood , Wild laughter , noise , and thoughtless joy , And leave us leisure to be good . Light they disperse ; and with them go . The summer friend , the flattering foe . By vain prosperity receiv'd , To her they ...
... pleasing folly's idle brood , Wild laughter , noise , and thoughtless joy , And leave us leisure to be good . Light they disperse ; and with them go . The summer friend , the flattering foe . By vain prosperity receiv'd , To her they ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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