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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... regard to those who have a right notion of it . Secondly , with regard to those who have a mistaken notion of it . And thirdly , with regard to those who treat it as chime- rical , and turn it into ridicule . In the first place , true ...
... regard to those who have a right notion of it . Secondly , with regard to those who have a mistaken notion of it . And thirdly , with regard to those who treat it as chime- rical , and turn it into ridicule . In the first place , true ...
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... regard to his Infirmities , and their Effects . 272. VANITY . Inconstancy is powerful in the heart of man ; intemperance swayeth it whither it will ; despair engrosseth much of it ; and fear proclaimeth , Behold , I sit unrivalled ...
... regard to his Infirmities , and their Effects . 272. VANITY . Inconstancy is powerful in the heart of man ; intemperance swayeth it whither it will ; despair engrosseth much of it ; and fear proclaimeth , Behold , I sit unrivalled ...
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... Regard . In every whole , whether natural or ar- tificial , the constituent parts well merit our regard , and in nothing more than in the facility of their coincidence . If we view a landskip , how pleasing the harmony be ; tween hills ...
... Regard . In every whole , whether natural or ar- tificial , the constituent parts well merit our regard , and in nothing more than in the facility of their coincidence . If we view a landskip , how pleasing the harmony be ; tween hills ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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