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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... becoming and agreeable , and to practise these in public , without their having any correspondence to the manner which is ... become wholly engaged in his subject ; to be possessed with a sense of its importance or serious- * The few ...
... becoming and agreeable , and to practise these in public , without their having any correspondence to the manner which is ... become wholly engaged in his subject ; to be possessed with a sense of its importance or serious- * The few ...
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... become a burden to myself ? " But , thirdly , how happy is the condition of that intellectual being , who is sensible of his Maker's presence from the secret effects of his mercy and loving - kindness ! 6 The blessed in heaven behold ...
... become a burden to myself ? " But , thirdly , how happy is the condition of that intellectual being , who is sensible of his Maker's presence from the secret effects of his mercy and loving - kindness ! 6 The blessed in heaven behold ...
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... become fathers , they will look upon with the ut- most sorrow and contrition , that they did not regard , before those whom they offend- ed were to be no more seen . How many thousand things do I remember , which would have highly ...
... become fathers , they will look upon with the ut- most sorrow and contrition , that they did not regard , before those whom they offend- ed were to be no more seen . How many thousand things do I remember , which would have highly ...
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... become at least decent , if not eminent , in their several stations , by unwearied and keen application : nor are there any possessed of such transcendent genius and abilities , as to render all pains and diligence unneces- sary ...
... become at least decent , if not eminent , in their several stations , by unwearied and keen application : nor are there any possessed of such transcendent genius and abilities , as to render all pains and diligence unneces- sary ...
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... become wise above that which is revealed , thy folly has perverted the instruction which was vouchsafed thee . Art thou disabled as the Fox ? hast thou not rather the powers of the Eagle ? Arise , let the Eagle be the object of thy ...
... become wise above that which is revealed , thy folly has perverted the instruction which was vouchsafed thee . Art thou disabled as the Fox ? hast thou not rather the powers of the Eagle ? Arise , let the Eagle be the object of thy ...
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admire affections agreeable ancient appear Aristotle attention bad company beauty body cerning character Christ Christian Cicero consider death Demosthenes divine duty earth elegance endeavour evil excellent expression father favour genius give grace greatest Greece Greek happiness hath heart heaven Herodotus holy Homer honour human Ibid idolatry Iliad imagination Jesus Jews kind knowledge labour language learned ligion live Livy Lord mankind manner matter means ment mind moral nation nature neral ness never object observe ourselves Pacuvius passions perfect persons Pindar Plato pleasure poetry poets praise principles proper racter reason religion render Roman Sallust Scripture sense sentiments shew sion Socrates soul speak spirit style sublime Tacitus taste temper thee Theocritus thine things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth ture unto vice Virgil virtue whole wisdom wise words writing youth