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 ReadingM. Bartgis, 1819 - 252 sivua |
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... vice . The irregular gratifications into which it occasionally seduces him , appear under the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged , in the beginning , with scrupulousness and reserve . But , by longer practice , these ...
... vice . The irregular gratifications into which it occasionally seduces him , appear under the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged , in the beginning , with scrupulousness and reserve . But , by longer practice , these ...
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... VICE GREATER THAN THOSE OF VIRTUE . 1. THOUGH no condition of human life is free from uneasi- ness , yet it must be allowed , that the uneasiness belonging to a sinful course , is far greater than what attends a course of well - doing ...
... VICE GREATER THAN THOSE OF VIRTUE . 1. THOUGH no condition of human life is free from uneasi- ness , yet it must be allowed , that the uneasiness belonging to a sinful course , is far greater than what attends a course of well - doing ...
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... vice promises , as the recompense of setting us free from the salutary restraints of virtue . SECTION XIII . THE MAN OF INTEGRITY . BLAIR . 1. Ir will not take much time to delineate the character of the man of integrity , as by its ...
... vice promises , as the recompense of setting us free from the salutary restraints of virtue . SECTION XIII . THE MAN OF INTEGRITY . BLAIR . 1. Ir will not take much time to delineate the character of the man of integrity , as by its ...
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Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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