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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... comfort in those whom he possesses . Be- lieving others to be his enemies , he will of course make them such . Let his caution be ever so great , the asperity of his ... COMFORTS OF RELIGION . 1. THERE are 52 Purt 1 THE ENGLISH READER .
... comfort in those whom he possesses . Be- lieving others to be his enemies , he will of course make them such . Let his caution be ever so great , the asperity of his ... COMFORTS OF RELIGION . 1. THERE are 52 Purt 1 THE ENGLISH READER .
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... COMFORTS OF RELIGION . 1. THERE are many who have passed the age of youth and beauty ; who have resigned the ... comfort . 2. Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of mankind , an experience very ...
... COMFORTS OF RELIGION . 1. THERE are many who have passed the age of youth and beauty ; who have resigned the ... comfort . 2. Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of mankind , an experience very ...
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... comforts himself with the contemplation of those divine attributes which are employed for his safety , and his ... comfort to 166 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
... comforts himself with the contemplation of those divine attributes which are employed for his safety , and his ... comfort to 166 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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