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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... receive that blessed sentence , " Well done , thou good and faithful servant : thou hast been faithful over a little , enter thou into the joy of thy Lord . " We believe , farther , in " the Holy Ghost ; that is , we believe every thing ...
... receive that blessed sentence , " Well done , thou good and faithful servant : thou hast been faithful over a little , enter thou into the joy of thy Lord . " We believe , farther , in " the Holy Ghost ; that is , we believe every thing ...
الصفحة 916
... receive a greater advantage from their resemblance to such as are natural ; because here the similitude is not only plea sant , but the pattern more perfect . The prettiest landskip I ever saw , was one drawn on the walls of a dark room ...
... receive a greater advantage from their resemblance to such as are natural ; because here the similitude is not only plea sant , but the pattern more perfect . The prettiest landskip I ever saw , was one drawn on the walls of a dark room ...
الصفحة 941
... receive from him and his elder brother . My lord , from whom I have received many favours , be- haves to me as if he was the person oblig . ed ; while his dordship's brother , who has conferred no favour on me but borrowing my money ...
... receive from him and his elder brother . My lord , from whom I have received many favours , be- haves to me as if he was the person oblig . ed ; while his dordship's brother , who has conferred no favour on me but borrowing my money ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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