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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... never disapproves , though by a respectful silence ; he never con- demns , though it be only by a good ex- ample . In short , he is solicitous for no thing , but by some studied devices to hide from others , and , if possible , to ...
... never disapproves , though by a respectful silence ; he never con- demns , though it be only by a good ex- ample . In short , he is solicitous for no thing , but by some studied devices to hide from others , and , if possible , to ...
الصفحة 126
... never ma ' e yourself more agreeable to any , at least as a com- panion , than when you countenance their conduct by imitating it . He who asso- ciates with the intemperate , and yet re- fuses to join in their excesses , will soon find ...
... never ma ' e yourself more agreeable to any , at least as a com- panion , than when you countenance their conduct by imitating it . He who asso- ciates with the intemperate , and yet re- fuses to join in their excesses , will soon find ...
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... never to define or be defined . It is the child and the parent of jargon . It is - I can never tell you what it is ; but I will try to tell you what it is not . In converfation it is not wit ; in manners it is not politenefs ; in ...
... never to define or be defined . It is the child and the parent of jargon . It is - I can never tell you what it is ; but I will try to tell you what it is not . In converfation it is not wit ; in manners it is not politenefs ; in ...
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On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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