The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verses; Selected from the Best Writers

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of future felicity
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The clemency and amiable character of the patriarch Joseph
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Altamont
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Democritus and Heraclitus CHAPTER VII
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Dionysius Pythias and Damon 3 Locke and Bayle Page 78 80 81 82 888 3853
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CHAPTER VIII
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Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate imploring their protection against Jugurtha
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The apostle Pauls noble defence before Festus and Agrippa
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Page
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An address to young persons
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CHAPTER IX
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Letter from Pliny to Germinius
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Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus on the death of an amiable young woman
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On discretion
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On the government of our thoughts
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On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions
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On the proper state of our temper with respect to one another
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Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ 8 Excellence of the Holy Scriptures on his disciples in his sermon on the m...
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Schemes of life often illusory
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The pleasures of virtuous sensibility
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On the true honour of
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The influence of devotion on the happiness of life 91 94 96 97 100 103 105 106 107 109 110 111 113 ib 114 116 117
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The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties
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On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on worldly pleasures
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Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity
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Virtue when deeply rooted is not subject to the influence of fortune
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The speech of Fabricius a Roman ambassador to king Pyrrhus
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Character of James I king of England 26 Charles V emperor of Germany resigns his dominions and retires from the world
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The same subject continued
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PART II
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Verses in which the lines are of different length
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Verses containing exclamations interrogations and parentheses
142
Verses in various forms
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