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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... READING . TO read with propriety is a pleasing and important attainment ; pro- ductive of improvement both to the understanding and the heart . It is essential to a complete reader , that he minutely perceive the ideas , and enter into ...
... READING . TO read with propriety is a pleasing and important attainment ; pro- ductive of improvement both to the understanding and the heart . It is essential to a complete reader , that he minutely perceive the ideas , and enter into ...
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... reading notes , are substituted for them . But when we recommend to readers , an attention to the tone and lan- guage of emotions , we must be understood to do it with proper limita- tion . Moderation is necessary in this point , as it ...
... reading notes , are substituted for them . But when we recommend to readers , an attention to the tone and lan- guage of emotions , we must be understood to do it with proper limita- tion . Moderation is necessary in this point , as it ...
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... reading must generally be formed upon the manner in which we utter ourselves in ordinary , sensible conversation ; and not upon the stiff artificial manner , which is acquired from reading books according to the common punctuation . It ...
... reading must generally be formed upon the manner in which we utter ourselves in ordinary , sensible conversation ; and not upon the stiff artificial manner , which is acquired from reading books according to the common punctuation . It ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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