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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... evil , which is not such - or if I know not that to be good , or that to be evil , which is really such - or if I think there is more or less good , or more or less evil in any thing than there really is — or if what , by a proper ...
... evil , which is not such - or if I know not that to be good , or that to be evil , which is really such - or if I think there is more or less good , or more or less evil in any thing than there really is — or if what , by a proper ...
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... evil , when things are in their proper course producing evil : we have very strong reason to believe , that an unchangeable God -- he whose wisdom uniformly displays itself - has fixed things thus , that thus they will proceed to all ...
... evil , when things are in their proper course producing evil : we have very strong reason to believe , that an unchangeable God -- he whose wisdom uniformly displays itself - has fixed things thus , that thus they will proceed to all ...
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... evil that I had not existed ? Good is in thy power ; the want of good is evil ; and if the question be just , lo ! it condemneth thee . Would the fish swallow the bait if he knew the hook was hidden therein ? would the lion enter the ...
... evil that I had not existed ? Good is in thy power ; the want of good is evil ; and if the question be just , lo ! it condemneth thee . Would the fish swallow the bait if he knew the hook was hidden therein ? would the lion enter the ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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