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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... Whole merit our Regard 190 Verbal Decorations not Mirutiæ 191 Advice to Readers 192 Constituent Parts of a Whole ; ex- emplified in Virgil's Georgics 193 And in the Menexenus of Plato 194 On the Theory of Whole and Parts- Accuracy 195 ...
... Whole merit our Regard 190 Verbal Decorations not Mirutiæ 191 Advice to Readers 192 Constituent Parts of a Whole ; ex- emplified in Virgil's Georgics 193 And in the Menexenus of Plato 194 On the Theory of Whole and Parts- Accuracy 195 ...
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... whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand , and that a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihi- lated every thousand years : Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the ...
... whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand , and that a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihi- lated every thousand years : Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the ...
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... whole , it would scarce make a blank in the creation . The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye , that could take in the whole compass of nature , and pass from one end of the creation to the other : as it is possible there may be ...
... whole , it would scarce make a blank in the creation . The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye , that could take in the whole compass of nature , and pass from one end of the creation to the other : as it is possible there may be ...
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... whole material world , which he thus essen . tially pervades ; and of every 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 ...
... whole material world , which he thus essen . tially pervades ; and of every 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 ...
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... whole of life is allowed by every one to be short , the several divisions of it appear long and te - ` dious . We are for lengthening our span in general , but would fain contract the parts of which it is composed . The usurer would be ...
... whole of life is allowed by every one to be short , the several divisions of it appear long and te - ` dious . We are for lengthening our span in general , but would fain contract the parts of which it is composed . The usurer would be ...
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