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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... cerning action and gesticulation , Quinc tilian has delivered a great many , in the last chapter of the . 11th Book of his In- stitutions ; and all the modern writers on this subject have done little else but trans- late them . I am not ...
... cerning action and gesticulation , Quinc tilian has delivered a great many , in the last chapter of the . 11th Book of his In- stitutions ; and all the modern writers on this subject have done little else but trans- late them . I am not ...
Page 102
... cerning his son , whom he had recom- mended to that gentleman's care . 66 After having expressed his wishes , that ... concerning it : so in morals , when once a due consideration of the essential and unchangeable differences of things ...
... cerning his son , whom he had recom- mended to that gentleman's care . 66 After having expressed his wishes , that ... concerning it : so in morals , when once a due consideration of the essential and unchangeable differences of things ...
Page 148
... cerning its beauties and advantages , and so fully know their preservation and improvement to depend upon ourselves , upon our own endeavours , care and pains : we cannot possibly be at a loss to discover what our wise Maker must , in ...
... cerning its beauties and advantages , and so fully know their preservation and improvement to depend upon ourselves , upon our own endeavours , care and pains : we cannot possibly be at a loss to discover what our wise Maker must , in ...
Page 209
... concerning it , and that one hour sufficient , in case it have passed , to obtain its reverse , would act con- trary ... cerning it , and divert themselves with the officiousness of such as charitably warn them of their danger . Thus not ...
... concerning it , and that one hour sufficient , in case it have passed , to obtain its reverse , would act con- trary ... cerning it , and divert themselves with the officiousness of such as charitably warn them of their danger . Thus not ...
Page 221
... cerning them ? and , if it had been so framed , could it have been received as authentic ? : If the law , & c . was ... concerning the accuracy of the copy of the books of the law , and of the other sacred books ; and whether there may ...
... cerning them ? and , if it had been so framed , could it have been received as authentic ? : If the law , & c . was ... concerning the accuracy of the copy of the books of the law , and of the other sacred books ; and whether there may ...
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