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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... human mature in its strong hold , and cut off its last resource . They penetrate to the very seat of sen- sation ; and convert all the powers of thought into instruments of torture . Ibid . to be the most genuine and true . — In a state ...
... human mature in its strong hold , and cut off its last resource . They penetrate to the very seat of sen- sation ; and convert all the powers of thought into instruments of torture . Ibid . to be the most genuine and true . — In a state ...
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... Human Capacity . We know not the bounds of taste , be- cause we are unacquainted with the ex- tent and boundaries of the human genius . The mind in ignorance is like a sleeping giant ; it has immense capacities without the power of ...
... Human Capacity . We know not the bounds of taste , be- cause we are unacquainted with the ex- tent and boundaries of the human genius . The mind in ignorance is like a sleeping giant ; it has immense capacities without the power of ...
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... human ever was distressed ; to deliver them as nothing human ever was delivered ; is the business of a modern dra- matist . For this , probability is violated , life is misrepresented , and language is de- praved . But love is only one ...
... human ever was distressed ; to deliver them as nothing human ever was delivered ; is the business of a modern dra- matist . For this , probability is violated , life is misrepresented , and language is de- praved . But love is only one ...
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