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 227
... appear in this view groundless , and with- out all foundation , when the true reason shall appear so wise , so plain , and so natural . These two views then , to preserve in the Hebrew nation the knowledge and worship of the one true ...
... appear in this view groundless , and with- out all foundation , when the true reason shall appear so wise , so plain , and so natural . These two views then , to preserve in the Hebrew nation the knowledge and worship of the one true ...
Page 312
... appear every 75th year . The second of them appeared in 1532 and 1661 , and may be expected to return in 1789 , and every 129th year afterwards . The third , having last appeared in 1680 , and its pe- riod being no less than 575 years ...
... appear every 75th year . The second of them appeared in 1532 and 1661 , and may be expected to return in 1789 , and every 129th year afterwards . The third , having last appeared in 1680 , and its pe- riod being no less than 575 years ...
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... appear in the descriptions made of them to have equal imagination with the statues ; and their poetry abounds with the same celestial imagery . But what puts this matter out of doubt is , that their celebrated beauties were the models ...
... appear in the descriptions made of them to have equal imagination with the statues ; and their poetry abounds with the same celestial imagery . But what puts this matter out of doubt is , that their celebrated beauties were the models ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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