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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... ideas and emo- tions . Now the tone of our voice , our looks and gestures , interpret our ideas and emotions no less than words do ; nay , the impression they make on others , is fre- quently much stronger than any that words We often ...
... ideas and emo- tions . Now the tone of our voice , our looks and gestures , interpret our ideas and emotions no less than words do ; nay , the impression they make on others , is fre- quently much stronger than any that words We often ...
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... ideas of the ancient philosophers concerning natural religion , were not col- lected into a body of doctrine . One philo- sopher had one idea , another studious man had another idea ; ideas of truth and vir- tue , therefore , lay ...
... ideas of the ancient philosophers concerning natural religion , were not col- lected into a body of doctrine . One philo- sopher had one idea , another studious man had another idea ; ideas of truth and vir- tue , therefore , lay ...
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... ideas of feeling , tasting , or smelling , which yet are not resemblances of any part of matter . I do not know if I appear too strong when I call colours the expression of the Divinity . Light strikes with such vivacity and force ...
... ideas of feeling , tasting , or smelling , which yet are not resemblances of any part of matter . I do not know if I appear too strong when I call colours the expression of the Divinity . Light strikes with such vivacity and force ...
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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