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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Page 188
... affections of some are natu- rally cool , and little excited by any objects . The guilty person , is be , whose affections are warm in every thing but religion.— The obvious meaning therefore of the ex- pression is , that whether our ...
... affections of some are natu- rally cool , and little excited by any objects . The guilty person , is be , whose affections are warm in every thing but religion.— The obvious meaning therefore of the ex- pression is , that whether our ...
Page 303
... affections . But no language can re- present this pathetic and affecting scene , with a force and energy equal to the su- blime simplicity of the Evangelist's own narrative ; " Now there stood by the cross of Jesus , his mother and his ...
... affections . But no language can re- present this pathetic and affecting scene , with a force and energy equal to the su- blime simplicity of the Evangelist's own narrative ; " Now there stood by the cross of Jesus , his mother and his ...
Page 378
... AFFECTIONS of MAN , which are hurtful to himself and others . § 279 , COVETOUSNESS . Riches are not worthy a strong atten- tion ; therefore an earnest care of obtain- ing them is unjustifiable . The desire of what man calleth good , the ...
... AFFECTIONS of MAN , which are hurtful to himself and others . § 279 , COVETOUSNESS . Riches are not worthy a strong atten- tion ; therefore an earnest care of obtain- ing them is unjustifiable . The desire of what man calleth good , the ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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