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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... direct Seneca to this doctrine , in a very remarkable passage among his epistles ; Sacer inest in nobis spiritus , bonorum malo rumque custos et observator ; et quemadmo- dum nos illum tractamus , ita et ille nos . There is a holy ...
... direct Seneca to this doctrine , in a very remarkable passage among his epistles ; Sacer inest in nobis spiritus , bonorum malo rumque custos et observator ; et quemadmo- dum nos illum tractamus , ita et ille nos . There is a holy ...
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... direct ; they cannot see so far as to the re mote consequences of a steady integrity , and the vast benefit and advantages which it will bring a man at last . Were but this sort of men wise and clear - sighted enough to discern this ...
... direct ; they cannot see so far as to the re mote consequences of a steady integrity , and the vast benefit and advantages which it will bring a man at last . Were but this sort of men wise and clear - sighted enough to discern this ...
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... direct and consistent . Inge- nuity and candour possess the most power ful charm : they bespeak universal favour , and carry an apology for almost every fail ing . The path of truth is a plain and safe path : that of falsehood is a ...
... direct and consistent . Inge- nuity and candour possess the most power ful charm : they bespeak universal favour , and carry an apology for almost every fail ing . The path of truth is a plain and safe path : that of falsehood is a ...
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... direct us , through the most beautiful and fruitful regions of knowledge in general , before we fix ourselves in , and contine our- selves to any particular province of it ; it being the great secret of education , not to 47. Discipline ...
... direct us , through the most beautiful and fruitful regions of knowledge in general , before we fix ourselves in , and contine our- selves to any particular province of it ; it being the great secret of education , not to 47. Discipline ...
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... direct the proper applica tion of such observation . Ibid . $ 78 . How Religion is to be applied to cure the Discases of the Mind . To cure the diseases of the mind , there is required that intimate knowledge of the human heart , which ...
... direct the proper applica tion of such observation . Ibid . $ 78 . How Religion is to be applied to cure the Discases of the Mind . To cure the diseases of the mind , there is required that intimate knowledge of the human heart , which ...
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