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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... necessary both in a civil , and in a moral light . In a civil light , it is the necessary ac- companiment of various employments ; on which depend all the advantages of soci- ety . Like the stones of a regular building , some must range ...
... necessary both in a civil , and in a moral light . In a civil light , it is the necessary ac- companiment of various employments ; on which depend all the advantages of soci- ety . Like the stones of a regular building , some must range ...
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... necessary to lay the method we use before the reader , only to write and then he will read , in order . But it requires a full command of the subject , a distinct view , to keep it always in sight , or else , without some method first ...
... necessary to lay the method we use before the reader , only to write and then he will read , in order . But it requires a full command of the subject , a distinct view , to keep it always in sight , or else , without some method first ...
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... necessary limits prescribed to this book . $ 141 . On the ancient Writers ; and on the Labour with which the Ancients composed . The Ancients ( of whom we speak ) had good natural parts , and applied them right ; they understood their ...
... necessary limits prescribed to this book . $ 141 . On the ancient Writers ; and on the Labour with which the Ancients composed . The Ancients ( of whom we speak ) had good natural parts , and applied them right ; they understood their ...
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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