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 203
... suppose ourselves in reality less accountable ? Can we suppose that God , for no reason that we can divine , has singled us out , and given us a large proportion of the things of this world ( while others around us are in need ) for no ...
... suppose ourselves in reality less accountable ? Can we suppose that God , for no reason that we can divine , has singled us out , and given us a large proportion of the things of this world ( while others around us are in need ) for no ...
الصفحة 251
... suppose some great professor in atheism to suggest to some of these men , that all this is mere dream and impos- ture ; that there is no such excellent Be- ing , as they suppose , that created and pre- serves them ; that all about them ...
... suppose some great professor in atheism to suggest to some of these men , that all this is mere dream and impos- ture ; that there is no such excellent Be- ing , as they suppose , that created and pre- serves them ; that all about them ...
الصفحة 391
... suppose some animal , to be presented to me , of whose structure I wanted to form a distinct notion , I would desire all its trappings to be taken off , I would re- quire it to be brought before me by itself , and to stand alone , that ...
... suppose some animal , to be presented to me , of whose structure I wanted to form a distinct notion , I would desire all its trappings to be taken off , I would re- quire it to be brought before me by itself , and to stand alone , that ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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