Introduction to the English Reader
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ISBN13: 9780217492553
Paperback|9780217492553
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hung belTeath the bough of a peach-tree, filled with honey ready tempered, and exposed to their taste in the most alluring manner. The thoughtless epicure, in spite of his friend's remonstrances, plungad headlong into the vessel, resolving to indulge himself in all the pleasures of sensuality. 4. His philosophic companion, on the other hand, pipped a little with caution; but being suspicious of danger, flew off to fruits and flowers; where, by the moderation of his meals, he improved his relish for the true enjoyment of them. 5. In the evening, however, he called upon hit friend, to inquire whether he would return totbe hive: but he found him surfeited in sweets, which he was aa unable to leave, as to enjoy. 6. Clogged in his wings, enfeebled in his feet, and his whole frame totally enervated, he was but just able to bid his friend adieu; and to lament, with his latest breath?Jhat though a taste of pleasure may quicken the relish of life, an unrestrained indulgence leads to inevitable destruction. Dodsley. SECTION VII.?Ingenuity and Industry rewarded. I. A Eicii husbandman had two sons, the one exactly a year older than Ihe other. The very day tho second was born, he set, in the entrance of his orchard, two young apple-trees of equal size, which he cultivated with the same care, and which grew so equally, that no person could perceive the least difference between them. 2. Whofinis children were capable of handling garden tools, he took them, one fine morning in spring; to see these two trees, which he had planted for them, and called after their names: and when they had sufficiently, admired their OTOwth, and the number of blossoms that covered taem, he said: My dear children, I give you these trees: you sec they are in good condition. S. They will thriv...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217492553 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021749255X |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 146 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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