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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... King's work: recently published books, such as Magistrale's Hollywood's Stephen King (2003) and The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window (2008), for example, focus solely on films adapted from King's novels or short ...
... King's work: recently published books, such as Magistrale's Hollywood's Stephen King (2003) and The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window (2008), for example, focus solely on films adapted from King's novels or short ...
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... king Agwisance , and king Idres , and the duke of Cambenet , and we five kings will have fifteen thousand men of arms with us , and we will go apart while ye six kings hold the meddle with twelve thousand , and when we see that ye have ...
... king Agwisance , and king Idres , and the duke of Cambenet , and we five kings will have fifteen thousand men of arms with us , and we will go apart while ye six kings hold the meddle with twelve thousand , and when we see that ye have ...
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... King disguised , to him Pistoll . Ke ve la ? King . A friend . Pift . Difcus vnto me , art thou a gentleman ? Or art thou common , base , and popeler ? King . No fir , I am a Gentleman of a Company . Pift . Trailes thou the puiffant Pike ?
... King disguised , to him Pistoll . Ke ve la ? King . A friend . Pift . Difcus vnto me , art thou a gentleman ? Or art thou common , base , and popeler ? King . No fir , I am a Gentleman of a Company . Pift . Trailes thou the puiffant Pike ?
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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