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 105
... feel ! ” 7. I was about to congratulate this passive , involuntary confessor , on his asserting the two prime articles of his creed , extorted by the rack of nature , when he thus very passion- ately exclaimed : - " No , no ! let me ...
... feel ! ” 7. I was about to congratulate this passive , involuntary confessor , on his asserting the two prime articles of his creed , extorted by the rack of nature , when he thus very passion- ately exclaimed : - " No , no ! let me ...
Page 184
... Feels not the wants that pinch the poor , Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door , Imbittering all his state . The tallest pines feel most the power Of wint'ry blast ; the loftiest tower Comes heaviest to the ground . The bolts that ...
... Feels not the wants that pinch the poor , Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door , Imbittering all his state . The tallest pines feel most the power Of wint'ry blast ; the loftiest tower Comes heaviest to the ground . The bolts that ...
Page 206
... feel for man . The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd , as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire . prey . ❤ He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r T'inforce the wrong , for such ...
... feel for man . The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd , as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire . prey . ❤ He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r T'inforce the wrong , for such ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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