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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... short enjoyment of that delicious region , after which they always determined to pursue their course without any other deviation . Reason was too often prevailed upon so far by these promises , as to venture her charge within the eddy ...
... short enjoyment of that delicious region , after which they always determined to pursue their course without any other deviation . Reason was too often prevailed upon so far by these promises , as to venture her charge within the eddy ...
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... short , and his knees trembled , and he was on the point of lying down in re- signation to his fate , when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper . He advanced towards the light , and finding that it proceeded from the ...
... short , and his knees trembled , and he was on the point of lying down in re- signation to his fate , when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper . He advanced towards the light , and finding that it proceeded from the ...
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... short and transient ; his second , per- manent and lasting . The question we are all concerned in is this , In which of those two lives is it our chief interest to make ourselves happy ? or , in other words , whe- ther we should ...
... short and transient ; his second , per- manent and lasting . The question we are all concerned in is this , In which of those two lives is it our chief interest to make ourselves happy ? or , in other words , whe- ther we should ...
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... short , to speak of him in the language of the old philosophers , he is a being whose centre is every where , and his circumfer- ence no where . In the second place , he is omniscient as well as omnipresent . His omniscience in- deed ...
... short , to speak of him in the language of the old philosophers , he is a being whose centre is every where , and his circumfer- ence no where . In the second place , he is omniscient as well as omnipresent . His omniscience in- deed ...
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... short life . The silk - worm , after having spun her task , lays her eggs and dies . But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge , has not time to subdue his passions , esta- blish his soul in virtue , and come up to ...
... short life . The silk - worm , after having spun her task , lays her eggs and dies . But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge , has not time to subdue his passions , esta- blish his soul in virtue , and come up to ...
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