Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 pages An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... admiration of all those great and high objects which mankind are natural- ly formed to admire . Joined with the manly virtues , he should , at the same time , possess strong and tender sensibili- ty to all the injuries , distresses ...
... admiration of all those great and high objects which mankind are natural- ly formed to admire . Joined with the manly virtues , he should , at the same time , possess strong and tender sensibili- ty to all the injuries , distresses ...
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... admire at a distance , and when any impropriety of behaviour accompanies them , we admire without love : they are like some of the distant stars , whose beneficial influence reaches not us , Whereas , of the in- fluence of gentleness ...
... admire at a distance , and when any impropriety of behaviour accompanies them , we admire without love : they are like some of the distant stars , whose beneficial influence reaches not us , Whereas , of the in- fluence of gentleness ...
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... admire and be astonished who has . His poems may justly be com- pared with that shield of divine work- manship so ... admired him as the great High Priest of nature , who was admitted into her inmost choir , and acquainted with her most ...
... admire and be astonished who has . His poems may justly be com- pared with that shield of divine work- manship so ... admired him as the great High Priest of nature , who was admitted into her inmost choir , and acquainted with her most ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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