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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... Thought 402 100 Allegories 438 403 101 the Sublime 439 102 Rules of Order and Proportion 439 403 103 A Recapitulation 440 39 Of the Rise of Poetry among the Romans 104 How to form a right Taste 440 Spence . 493 105 Taste to be improved ...
... Thought 402 100 Allegories 438 403 101 the Sublime 439 102 Rules of Order and Proportion 439 403 103 A Recapitulation 440 39 Of the Rise of Poetry among the Romans 104 How to form a right Taste 440 Spence . 493 105 Taste to be improved ...
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... thought . When there is such a parity between two persons associated for life , the dejec- tion which the husband , if he be not com- pletely stupid , must always suffer for want of superiority , sinks him to submissiveness . My mamma ...
... thought . When there is such a parity between two persons associated for life , the dejec- tion which the husband , if he be not com- pletely stupid , must always suffer for want of superiority , sinks him to submissiveness . My mamma ...
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... thought it necessary to justify their understandings , by treating me with contempt . One of these witlings elevated his crest , by asking me in a full coffee - house the price of patches ; and another whispered , that he wondered Miss ...
... thought it necessary to justify their understandings , by treating me with contempt . One of these witlings elevated his crest , by asking me in a full coffee - house the price of patches ; and another whispered , that he wondered Miss ...
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... thought , I could not but reflect on that little insigni- ficant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works . Were the sun which enlightens this part of the creation , with all the host of planetary worlds that move ...
... thought , I could not but reflect on that little insigni- ficant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works . Were the sun which enlightens this part of the creation , with all the host of planetary worlds that move ...
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... thought that is stirring in the intellectual world , to every part of which he is thus intimately united . Several moralists have considered the creation as the temple of God , which he has built with his own hands , and which is filled ...
... thought that is stirring in the intellectual world , to every part of which he is thus intimately united . Several moralists have considered the creation as the temple of God , which he has built with his own hands , and which is filled ...
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admire affections agreeable ancient appear Aristotle attention bad company beauty body cerning character Christ Christian Cicero consider death Demosthenes divine duty earth elegance endeavour evil excellent expression father favour genius give grace greatest Greece Greek happiness hath heart heaven Herodotus holy Homer honour human Ibid idolatry Iliad imagination Jesus Jews kind knowledge labour language learned ligion live Livy Lord mankind manner matter means ment mind moral nation nature neral ness never object observe ourselves Pacuvius passions perfect persons Pindar Plato pleasure poetry poets praise principles proper racter reason religion render Roman Sallust Scripture sense sentiments shew sion Socrates soul speak spirit style sublime Tacitus taste temper thee Theocritus thine things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth ture unto vice Virgil virtue whole wisdom wise words writing youth