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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... actions and gesticula- tions , on all occasions , when they are much in earnest . It is therefore unnatural in a ... action , is undoubtedly the same with what gave as to propriety of tone . Attend to the looks and gestures , in which ...
... actions and gesticula- tions , on all occasions , when they are much in earnest . It is therefore unnatural in a ... action , is undoubtedly the same with what gave as to propriety of tone . Attend to the looks and gestures , in which ...
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... Actions 166 Duties to ourselves 167 On coveting other Men's Goods 168 On the Sacrament of Baptism 169 On the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 198 199 201 204 204 Phillips . 301 Melmoth . 302 170 Expostulation with Unbelievers M. Pascal ...
... Actions 166 Duties to ourselves 167 On coveting other Men's Goods 168 On the Sacrament of Baptism 169 On the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 198 199 201 204 204 Phillips . 301 Melmoth . 302 170 Expostulation with Unbelievers M. Pascal ...
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... actions of a few objects , that lie contiguous to them . Their knowledge and observation turn within a very nar- row circle . But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know every thing in which he resides , infinite space gives room ...
... actions of a few objects , that lie contiguous to them . Their knowledge and observation turn within a very nar- row circle . But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know every thing in which he resides , infinite space gives room ...
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... actions ? Why truly , says she , I was so taken up with publishing the faults of others , that I had no time to consider my own . Madam , says Rhadamanthus , be pleased to file off to the left , and make room for the venerable matron ...
... actions ? Why truly , says she , I was so taken up with publishing the faults of others , that I had no time to consider my own . Madam , says Rhadamanthus , be pleased to file off to the left , and make room for the venerable matron ...
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... actions ; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end : all other arts will fail , but truth and integrity will carry a man through , and bear him out to the last . • given me the dominion of a country , fruitful. Spectator ...
... actions ; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end : all other arts will fail , but truth and integrity will carry a man through , and bear him out to the last . • given me the dominion of a country , fruitful. Spectator ...
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