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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264페이지 |
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... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and when- ever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always beard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and when- ever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always beard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
xiv 페이지
... less degree of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it ; but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . An emphasis often falls on words ...
... less degree of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it ; but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . An emphasis often falls on words ...
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... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a sit- uation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his prin- ciples , disorders his temper , and , finally , oversets his virtue ...
... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a sit- uation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his prin- ciples , disorders his temper , and , finally , oversets his virtue ...
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... less If envious people were to ask themselves whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons envied , [ I mean their minds , passions , notions , well as their persoas , fortunes , and dignities , ] — I presume the ...
... less If envious people were to ask themselves whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons envied , [ I mean their minds , passions , notions , well as their persoas , fortunes , and dignities , ] — I presume the ...
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... of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world . facts plainly show , that if its vanity were less Chap . 1 . 15 Select Sentences .
... of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world . facts plainly show , that if its vanity were less Chap . 1 . 15 Select Sentences .
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