Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons ; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryJ. Johnson, 1808 - 1120 pages An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... able to stem the whirlpool in which his friend was swallowed , or glide over the rocks on which he was dashed ; nor was it often observed that the sight of a wreck made any man change his course ; if he turned aside for a moment , he ...
... able to stem the whirlpool in which his friend was swallowed , or glide over the rocks on which he was dashed ; nor was it often observed that the sight of a wreck made any man change his course ; if he turned aside for a moment , he ...
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... able , which he does not essentially inhabit . His substance is within the substance of every being , whether material or inmate- rial , and as intimately present to it , as that being is to itself . It would be an imper- fection ...
... able , which he does not essentially inhabit . His substance is within the substance of every being , whether material or inmate- rial , and as intimately present to it , as that being is to itself . It would be an imper- fection ...
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... able to move out of one place into another , or to draw him- self from any thing he has created , or from any part of that space which he dif- fused and spread abroad to infinity . In short , to speak of him in the language of the old ...
... able to move out of one place into another , or to draw him- self from any thing he has created , or from any part of that space which he dif- fused and spread abroad to infinity . In short , to speak of him in the language of the old ...
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... able to disquiet the soul , and vex it in all its faculties . He can hinder any of the greatest comforts of life from refreshing us , and give an edge to every one of its slightest calamities . Who then can bear the thought of being an ...
... able to disquiet the soul , and vex it in all its faculties . He can hinder any of the greatest comforts of life from refreshing us , and give an edge to every one of its slightest calamities . Who then can bear the thought of being an ...
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... able to consume , our lives , tho ' much contracted by incidental distraction , would yet afford us a large space vacant to the exercise of reason and virtue ; that we want not time , but diligence , for great performances ; and that we ...
... able to consume , our lives , tho ' much contracted by incidental distraction , would yet afford us a large space vacant to the exercise of reason and virtue ; that we want not time , but diligence , for great performances ; and that we ...
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