The Understanding Reader, Or, Knowledge Before Oratory: Being a New Selection of Lessons Suited to the Understanding and Capacities of Youth and Designed for Their Improvement ... |
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... purposes are the generality of thofe Selections for reading , molt common in our Schools . Extracts from the Grecian and Roman Orators , from Orations , the Poets , detached pieces of hif- tory , together with difquifitions on many of ...
... purposes are the generality of thofe Selections for reading , molt common in our Schools . Extracts from the Grecian and Roman Orators , from Orations , the Poets , detached pieces of hif- tory , together with difquifitions on many of ...
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... purpose . He then ties his prey to his boat , and tows it dispatches . after him to his family , who receive it with joy , and drefs it for his fupper . 15. Although thefe poor people live a life fatigue . of fuch continual fatigue ...
... purpose . He then ties his prey to his boat , and tows it dispatches . after him to his family , who receive it with joy , and drefs it for his fupper . 15. Although thefe poor people live a life fatigue . of fuch continual fatigue ...
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... purposes . of a cow , in giving milk ; and it anfwers the purposes of the fheep , in furnithing them with a warm tho with a homely kind of clothing . homely . quadruped ? deftitute ? 4. From this quadruped alone , therefore , they ...
... purposes . of a cow , in giving milk ; and it anfwers the purposes of the fheep , in furnithing them with a warm tho with a homely kind of clothing . homely . quadruped ? deftitute ? 4. From this quadruped alone , therefore , they ...
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... purpose , it is neceffary that you should confent to the plan I have formed , and go along with him to the place whither I intend to fend you both . confent . mifchievous . • ppreffive ? teach , inhabited . 15. The poor man faid , I ...
... purpose , it is neceffary that you should confent to the plan I have formed , and go along with him to the place whither I intend to fend you both . confent . mifchievous . • ppreffive ? teach , inhabited . 15. The poor man faid , I ...
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... purpose . appear . people .. 7. And when we were all fallen to the earth , I heard a voice speaking unto me , and faying in the hebrew tongue , Saul , Saul , why perfecuteft thou me ? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks . And ...
... purpose . appear . people .. 7. And when we were all fallen to the earth , I heard a voice speaking unto me , and faying in the hebrew tongue , Saul , Saul , why perfecuteft thou me ? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks . And ...
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Page 46 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 177 - Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people : And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Page 7 - Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Page 10 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 4 - And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Page 47 - I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles. And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
Page 7 - All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live : but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Page 6 - There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws, therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 1 - LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Page 4 - And the thing pleased the king; and he did so. Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.