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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... sure and improvement . Though it is chiefly and primarily adapted to scho- lars at school ; yet it is certain , that all readers may find it an agreeable Companion , and particularly proper to fill up short intervals of accidental ...
... sure and improvement . Though it is chiefly and primarily adapted to scho- lars at school ; yet it is certain , that all readers may find it an agreeable Companion , and particularly proper to fill up short intervals of accidental ...
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... sure that our endeavours will succeed , and that we shall not be disappointed of our hope . The following question is started by one of the schoolmen . Supposing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand ...
... sure that our endeavours will succeed , and that we shall not be disappointed of our hope . The following question is started by one of the schoolmen . Supposing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand ...
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... sure at length to feel him in his displeasure . And how dreadful is the con- dition of that creature , who is only sensible of the being of his Creator by what he suffers from him ! He is as essentially pre- sent in hell as in heaven ...
... sure at length to feel him in his displeasure . And how dreadful is the con- dition of that creature , who is only sensible of the being of his Creator by what he suffers from him ! He is as essentially pre- sent in hell as in heaven ...
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... sure of , and such a truth as we meet with in every object , in every occurrence , and in every thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of infidels , we generally find they are made up of pride , spleen , and cavil : it ...
... sure of , and such a truth as we meet with in every object , in every occurrence , and in every thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of infidels , we generally find they are made up of pride , spleen , and cavil : it ...
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... sure sincerity is better ; for why does any man dissemble , or seem to be that which he is not , but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble , is to put on the appearance of ...
... sure sincerity is better ; for why does any man dissemble , or seem to be that which he is not , but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble , is to put on the appearance of ...
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