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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... Youth 17 On a lazy and trifling Disposition 18 Bad Effects of Indolence 19 Iunocent Pleasures of Childhood 20 Cheerfulness recommended 21 Advantages of a cheerful Temper 22 On Truth and Sincerity Guard , 22 Chesterf . 24 25 Connoiss ...
... Youth 17 On a lazy and trifling Disposition 18 Bad Effects of Indolence 19 Iunocent Pleasures of Childhood 20 Cheerfulness recommended 21 Advantages of a cheerful Temper 22 On Truth and Sincerity Guard , 22 Chesterf . 24 25 Connoiss ...
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... youth , then the years of ripened manhood , then the better or more pleasing part of old age . - The perusal of this passage having excited in me a train of reflections on the state of man , the in- cessant fluctuation of his wishes ...
... youth , then the years of ripened manhood , then the better or more pleasing part of old age . - The perusal of this passage having excited in me a train of reflections on the state of man , the in- cessant fluctuation of his wishes ...
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... youth , attended a princess of France into Poland , where he had been entertained by the King her hus- band , and married the daughter of a gran- dee . Upon her death he returned into his native country ; where his intrigues and other ...
... youth , attended a princess of France into Poland , where he had been entertained by the King her hus- band , and married the daughter of a gran- dee . Upon her death he returned into his native country ; where his intrigues and other ...
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... youth pleased me wonderfully ; and if I had not suspected that he was my rival , I should have taken delight in his person and friendship . " They both of them often asked me if I were in reality a German ? which when I continued to ...
... youth pleased me wonderfully ; and if I had not suspected that he was my rival , I should have taken delight in his person and friendship . " They both of them often asked me if I were in reality a German ? which when I continued to ...
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... youth ; the noon corresponds to the summer , and the summer to the strength of manhood . The evening is an emblem of autumn , and autumn of declining life . The night with its silence and darkness shews the winter , in which all the ...
... youth ; the noon corresponds to the summer , and the summer to the strength of manhood . The evening is an emblem of autumn , and autumn of declining life . The night with its silence and darkness shews the winter , in which all the ...
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