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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... equally plain to all men , would be of no great advantage to the possessors . If , therefore , there are in the ... equally rewarded ; will equally lose all personal existence , and return to the elements . How different are the ...
... equally plain to all men , would be of no great advantage to the possessors . If , therefore , there are in the ... equally rewarded ; will equally lose all personal existence , and return to the elements . How different are the ...
الصفحة 344
... equally wonderful , in- teresting , and affecting ; or that is told in so short and simple a manner as this , which is , of all histories , the most authentic . you advance in years and understand- ing , I hope you will be able to ...
... equally wonderful , in- teresting , and affecting ; or that is told in so short and simple a manner as this , which is , of all histories , the most authentic . you advance in years and understand- ing , I hope you will be able to ...
الصفحة 752
... equally on her temper and on her capacity . Endowed with a great command of herself , the obtained an un- controuled afcendant over her people ; and while the merited all their efteem by her real virtues , fhealio engaged their ...
... equally on her temper and on her capacity . Endowed with a great command of herself , the obtained an un- controuled afcendant over her people ; and while the merited all their efteem by her real virtues , fhealio engaged their ...
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