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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... Hope , who was the constant associate of the Voy age of Life . Yet all that Hope ventured to promise , even to those whom he favoured most , was , not that they should escape , but that they should sink last ; and with this pro- mise ...
... Hope , who was the constant associate of the Voy age of Life . Yet all that Hope ventured to promise , even to those whom he favoured most , was , not that they should escape , but that they should sink last ; and with this pro- mise ...
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... hope , and without God in the world ; have been an open enemy to Jesus Christ , doing the utmost despite to the Holy Spirit of grace ; and that the greatest testimony of my cha- rity to such , is , to warn them , in the name of God , as ...
... hope , and without God in the world ; have been an open enemy to Jesus Christ , doing the utmost despite to the Holy Spirit of grace ; and that the greatest testimony of my cha- rity to such , is , to warn them , in the name of God , as ...
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... HOPE and FEAR . The promises of hope are sweeter than roses in the bud , and far more flattering to expectation ; but the threatenings of fear are a terror to the heart . Nevertheless , let not hope allure , nor fear deter thee from ...
... HOPE and FEAR . The promises of hope are sweeter than roses in the bud , and far more flattering to expectation ; but the threatenings of fear are a terror to the heart . Nevertheless , let not hope allure , nor fear deter thee from ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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