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Even at best , they will fail us imply a greater warmth of affection , than in the end .
While pain , diseases , and many people may perhaps find they can death , shew
us , that the world can afford exert . The affections of some are natu no refuge ...
Even at best , they will fail us imply a greater warmth of affection , than in the end .
While pain , diseases , and many people may perhaps find they can death , shew
us , that the world can afford exert . The affections of some are natu no refuge ...
Page 303
Then he saith to the disciple , Behold blime affections , or so unfriendly to hatred
thy mother ! ... encomiums by the ancients , there can- the mind any great and
good affection , as not be produced a single instance , in which piety , or
patriotism .
Then he saith to the disciple , Behold blime affections , or so unfriendly to hatred
thy mother ! ... encomiums by the ancients , there can- the mind any great and
good affection , as not be produced a single instance , in which piety , or
patriotism .
Page 515
It is further to be observed , that and if the gentle passions , in an indifferent when
once the affections are fixed , a new face , do not change it to perfect beauty , it
face with a higher degree of beauty will is because nature did not originally ...
It is further to be observed , that and if the gentle passions , in an indifferent when
once the affections are fixed , a new face , do not change it to perfect beauty , it
face with a higher degree of beauty will is because nature did not originally ...
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Contents
Authe Pas | 1 |
Practice necessary for forming a Syle Blair 401 95 On Plainness and Perspicuity Felton 436 | 34 |
Excellenceofthe Sacred Writings Brown | 305 |
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| Title | Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry |
| Editor | Vicesimus Knox |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1808 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 1 pages |
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