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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... Knowledge 69 Sense of Right and Wrong , & c . Gregory . 57 70 Cause of Infidelity 5 54 55 Spect . 6 56 8 57 Ramb . Spect . 10 8 12 14 15 16 Idler . 18 Ramb . 19 Spect . 21 15 Punishment of mis - spent Time 16 Importance of Time to Youth ...
... Knowledge 69 Sense of Right and Wrong , & c . Gregory . 57 70 Cause of Infidelity 5 54 55 Spect . 6 56 8 57 Ramb . Spect . 10 8 12 14 15 16 Idler . 18 Ramb . 19 Spect . 21 15 Punishment of mis - spent Time 16 Importance of Time to Youth ...
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... 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 to infinite knowledge , and is , as it were , an organ to ...
... 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 to infinite knowledge , and is , as it were , an organ to ...
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... knowledge , has not time to subdue his passions , esta- blish his soul in virtue , and come up to the perfection of his nature , before he is hurried off the stage . Would an infinitely wise being make such glorious creatures for so ...
... knowledge , has not time to subdue his passions , esta- blish his soul in virtue , and come up to the perfection of his nature , before he is hurried off the stage . Would an infinitely wise being make such glorious creatures for so ...
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... knowledge , and discover how much more is to be hoped from frequency and perseverance than from violent efforts and sudden desires ; efforts which are soon remitted when they encounter difficulty , and desires which , if they are ...
... knowledge , and discover how much more is to be hoped from frequency and perseverance than from violent efforts and sudden desires ; efforts which are soon remitted when they encounter difficulty , and desires which , if they are ...
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... knowledge you do not solidly lay the foun- dation of before you are eighteen , you will never be master of while you breathe . Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age ; and if we do not ...
... knowledge you do not solidly lay the foun- dation of before you are eighteen , you will never be master of while you breathe . Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age ; and if we do not ...
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