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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... least of their assistance . The only advantage which , in the Voyage of Life , the cautious had above the negli- gent . was , that they sunk later , and more suddenly ; for they passed forward till they had sometimes seen all those in ...
... least of their assistance . The only advantage which , in the Voyage of Life , the cautious had above the negli- gent . was , that they sunk later , and more suddenly ; for they passed forward till they had sometimes seen all those in ...
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... least pains to preserve his wife , children , and family , from starving ; and he must be a worthless friend , for he would not draw his hand from his bosom , though to pre- vent the destruction of the universe . If he is born poor , he ...
... least pains to preserve his wife , children , and family , from starving ; and he must be a worthless friend , for he would not draw his hand from his bosom , though to pre- vent the destruction of the universe . If he is born poor , he ...
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... least turn in the muscles or twist in the fibres of any one , which does not render them more proper for that particular anim's way of life , " than any other cast or texture of them would have been . The most violent appetites in all ...
... least turn in the muscles or twist in the fibres of any one , which does not render them more proper for that particular anim's way of life , " than any other cast or texture of them would have been . The most violent appetites in all ...
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... least glimmerings of thought or common sense . She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg , and sits upon it in the same manner : she is insensible of any in- crease or diminution in the number of those she lays she does not distinguish ...
... least glimmerings of thought or common sense . She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg , and sits upon it in the same manner : she is insensible of any in- crease or diminution in the number of those she lays she does not distinguish ...
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... least , of unlawful gratification , there did not spring some thorn to wound you ; there did not arise some consequence to make you repent of it in the issue ? How long will you repeat the same round of pernicious folly , and tamely ...
... least , of unlawful gratification , there did not spring some thorn to wound you ; there did not arise some consequence to make you repent of it in the issue ? How long will you repeat the same round of pernicious folly , and tamely ...
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