Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... actions they celebrate proceed from laud- able and worthy motives ; and how far we are really possessed of the virtues , which garn us applause among those with whom we converse . Such a reflection is absolutely necessary , if we ...
... actions they celebrate proceed from laud- able and worthy motives ; and how far we are really possessed of the virtues , which garn us applause among those with whom we converse . Such a reflection is absolutely necessary , if we ...
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... actions , his death , and his resurrection , are all very distinctly held out . It is true , the Jews , explaining the warm figures of the pro- phetic language too literally , and applying to a temporal dominion those expressions ...
... actions , his death , and his resurrection , are all very distinctly held out . It is true , the Jews , explaining the warm figures of the pro- phetic language too literally , and applying to a temporal dominion those expressions ...
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... Actions . Having thus considered injurious words , let us next consider injurious actions , On this head we are enjoined " to keep our hands from picking and stealing , and to be true and just in all our dealings . " As to theft , it is ...
... Actions . Having thus considered injurious words , let us next consider injurious actions , On this head we are enjoined " to keep our hands from picking and stealing , and to be true and just in all our dealings . " As to theft , it is ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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admire Æneid affections agreeable ancient appear Aristotle attention bad company beauty body cerning character Christ Christian Cicero consider dæmons death Demosthenes divine duty earth elegance endeavour evil excellent expression father favour genius give grace greatest Greece Greek happiness hath heart heaven Herodotus holy Homer honour human Ibid idolatry Iliad imagination Jews kind knowledge labour language learned ligion live Livy Lord mankind manner matter means ment mind moral nation nature neral ness never object observe ourselves Pacuvius passions perfect persons Pindar Plato pleasure poetry poets praise proper racter reason religion render Roman Sallust Scripture sense sentiments shew sion Socrates soul speak spirit style sublime Tacitus taste temper thee Theocritus thine things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth ture unto vice Virgil virtue whole wisdom wise words writing youth