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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... beauty in the same face , in a good and in ill humour : and if the gentle passions , in an indifferent face , do not change it to perfect beauty , it is because nature did not originally model the features to the just and familiar ...
... beauty in the same face , in a good and in ill humour : and if the gentle passions , in an indifferent face , do not change it to perfect beauty , it is because nature did not originally model the features to the just and familiar ...
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... beauty , or first examine its real merits ? When we look into the works of nature , we cannot avoid observing that uniformity is but the beauty of minute objects . The opposite sides of a leaf divided in the mid- dle , and the leaves of ...
... beauty , or first examine its real merits ? When we look into the works of nature , we cannot avoid observing that uniformity is but the beauty of minute objects . The opposite sides of a leaf divided in the mid- dle , and the leaves of ...
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... beauty of colours may perhaps be arranged of Beauty . A full and consistent evidence of design , especially if the design be attended with an important effect , gives the idea of beauty ; thus a ship under sail , a greyhound , a well ...
... beauty of colours may perhaps be arranged of Beauty . A full and consistent evidence of design , especially if the design be attended with an important effect , gives the idea of beauty ; thus a ship under sail , a greyhound , a well ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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