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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الصفحة 257
... principles of the gospel , I solve the difficulties , which these sad objects pro- duce in the mind of the disciple of natural religion . If the principles of Christianity be admitted , if we allow , that the afflic- tions of good mer ...
... principles of the gospel , I solve the difficulties , which these sad objects pro- duce in the mind of the disciple of natural religion . If the principles of Christianity be admitted , if we allow , that the afflic- tions of good mer ...
الصفحة 300
... principles inconsistent with the nature of man , and contradictory to truth and experience . By a direct consequence of these principles they were liable to be seduced , and in fact , often were seduced into pride , heard - heart ...
... principles inconsistent with the nature of man , and contradictory to truth and experience . By a direct consequence of these principles they were liable to be seduced , and in fact , often were seduced into pride , heard - heart ...
الصفحة 322
... principles which strongly attract each other and a large portion of air , which strongly attracts when fixed , but strongly repels when in an elastic state . By the combination , action , and re - action of those few principles , all ...
... principles which strongly attract each other and a large portion of air , which strongly attracts when fixed , but strongly repels when in an elastic state . By the combination , action , and re - action of those few principles , all ...
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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