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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... equally endan- gered ? ' I looked , and seeing the gulph of Intemperance before me , started and Rambler . awaked . §3 . The Journey of a Day , a Picture of Human Life ; the Story of Obidah . Obidah , the son of Abensina , left the ...
... equally endan- gered ? ' I looked , and seeing the gulph of Intemperance before me , started and Rambler . awaked . §3 . The Journey of a Day , a Picture of Human Life ; the Story of Obidah . Obidah , the son of Abensina , left the ...
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... equally abstracted from the object of inquiry ; but , perhaps , if it be detained by occupations less pleasing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures , and surfeited with ...
... equally abstracted from the object of inquiry ; but , perhaps , if it be detained by occupations less pleasing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures , and surfeited with ...
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... equally pros- perous in the course of life . While some of them , by wise and steady conduct , attain distinction in the world , and pass their days with comfort and honour ; others of the same rank , by mean and vicious behaviour ...
... equally pros- perous in the course of life . While some of them , by wise and steady conduct , attain distinction in the world , and pass their days with comfort and honour ; others of the same rank , by mean and vicious behaviour ...
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... equally able takes the lamp , to dispense light to all within its sphere * . Ibid . One considerable advantage is , that regular method of study , too much neg- lected in other places , which obtains here . Nothing is more common ...
... equally able takes the lamp , to dispense light to all within its sphere * . Ibid . One considerable advantage is , that regular method of study , too much neg- lected in other places , which obtains here . Nothing is more common ...
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... equally service- able and ornamental to themselves , and beneficial to mankind ? And shall any one dare to convert a house of discipline and learning into a house of dissoluteness , ex- travagance , and riot ? With what an ag gravation ...
... equally service- able and ornamental to themselves , and beneficial to mankind ? And shall any one dare to convert a house of discipline and learning into a house of dissoluteness , ex- travagance , and riot ? With what an ag gravation ...
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