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 - 264 من الصفحات |
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... happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first stady to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness ...
... happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first stady to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness ...
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... happiness than misery , more pleasure than pain , in the condition of man . Society , when formed , requires distinctions of pro- perty , diversity of conditions , subordination of ranks , and a multiplicity of occupations , in order to ...
... happiness than misery , more pleasure than pain , in the condition of man . Society , when formed , requires distinctions of pro- perty , diversity of conditions , subordination of ranks , and a multiplicity of occupations , in order to ...
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... happiness of every man depends more upon the state of his own mind . than upon any one external circumstance ; nay more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ourselves secure from the ...
... happiness of every man depends more upon the state of his own mind . than upon any one external circumstance ; nay more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ourselves secure from the ...
الصفحة 6
... that every moment of delay , takes away some- thing from the value of his benefaction . And let him who proposes his own happiness reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and 6 Part 1 . The English Reader .
... that every moment of delay , takes away some- thing from the value of his benefaction . And let him who proposes his own happiness reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and 6 Part 1 . The English Reader .
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... happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends generally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious but an ill one more contemptible . Vice is in- famous , though in a prince ; and virtue honorable ...
... happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends generally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious but an ill one more contemptible . Vice is in- famous , though in a prince ; and virtue honorable ...
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الصفحة 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.