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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... POPE . Classical learning , thus defective in a point so obvious to de- tection , incurred the imputation of pedantry . It was observed to 2 assume ' ) ) s assume an important air of superiority , without display- ing.
... POPE . Classical learning , thus defective in a point so obvious to de- tection , incurred the imputation of pedantry . It was observed to 2 assume ' ) ) s assume an important air of superiority , without display- ing.
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... observed some with scimitars in their hands , and others with urinals , who ran to and fro upon the bridge , thrusting several persons on trap doors which did not seem to lie in their way , and which they might have escaped bad they not ...
... observed some with scimitars in their hands , and others with urinals , who ran to and fro upon the bridge , thrusting several persons on trap doors which did not seem to lie in their way , and which they might have escaped bad they not ...
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... observed that the sight of a wreck made any man change his course ; if he turned aside for a moment , he soon forgot the rudder , and left himself again to the disposal of chance . This negligence did not proceed from indifference , or ...
... observed that the sight of a wreck made any man change his course ; if he turned aside for a moment , he soon forgot the rudder , and left himself again to the disposal of chance . This negligence did not proceed from indifference , or ...
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... observed by the passage , and by nations who have raised Their minds very little above animal in- stinct : there are human beings , whose language does not supply them with words by which they can number five , but I have read of none ...
... observed by the passage , and by nations who have raised Their minds very little above animal in- stinct : there are human beings , whose language does not supply them with words by which they can number five , but I have read of none ...
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... observed , that the sacred Person who was the great pattern of perfection , was never seen to laugh . Cheerfulness of mind is not liable to any of these exceptions : it is of a serious and composed nature ; it does not throw the mind ...
... observed , that the sacred Person who was the great pattern of perfection , was never seen to laugh . Cheerfulness of mind is not liable to any of these exceptions : it is of a serious and composed nature ; it does not throw the mind ...
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