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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... expect from Christ the redemption of our souls and bodies , and given us no reason to think that Christ was endowed with power equal to the work , we might justly have complained ; and it would have been a standing reproach , that ...
... expect from Christ the redemption of our souls and bodies , and given us no reason to think that Christ was endowed with power equal to the work , we might justly have complained ; and it would have been a standing reproach , that ...
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... expect to find , in the com- positions of any one man , some degree of uniformity or consistency with himself in manner ; we expect to find some predo- minant character of Style impressed on all his writings , which shall be suited to ...
... expect to find , in the com- positions of any one man , some degree of uniformity or consistency with himself in manner ; we expect to find some predo- minant character of Style impressed on all his writings , which shall be suited to ...
الصفحة 484
... expect something farther ; and that of preceding the end , where we expect nothing more . The eight last verses of the poem make the end , which , like the beginning , is short , and which preserves its real charac- ter , by satisfying ...
... expect something farther ; and that of preceding the end , where we expect nothing more . The eight last verses of the poem make the end , which , like the beginning , is short , and which preserves its real charac- ter , by satisfying ...
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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