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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الصفحة 888
... continued bare of inhabi- tants , it is reasonable to suppose that all was in common among them , and that every one took from the public stock to his own use such things as his immediate necessities required . These general notions of ...
... continued bare of inhabi- tants , it is reasonable to suppose that all was in common among them , and that every one took from the public stock to his own use such things as his immediate necessities required . These general notions of ...
الصفحة 889
... continued for months together without any sensible interruption , and at length by usage ripen into an established right ; but principally because few of them could be fit for use , till improved and meliorated by the bodily labour of ...
... continued for months together without any sensible interruption , and at length by usage ripen into an established right ; but principally because few of them could be fit for use , till improved and meliorated by the bodily labour of ...
الصفحة 891
... continued delirium . The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life , are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth , others must labour on in a maze of ...
... continued delirium . The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life , are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth , others must labour on in a maze of ...
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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