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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... genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it : but tell me further , said he , what thou discoverest ...
... genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it : but tell me further , said he , what thou discoverest ...
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... Genius will suffice , fallacious . It must be confessed , ' tis a flattering doctrine , to tell a young beginner , that he has nothing more to do than to trust his own genius , and to contemn all rules , as the tyranny of pedants . The ...
... Genius will suffice , fallacious . It must be confessed , ' tis a flattering doctrine , to tell a young beginner , that he has nothing more to do than to trust his own genius , and to contemn all rules , as the tyranny of pedants . The ...
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... genius ; but the power of exe- cution was lost ; and although monarchs loved and courted the arts , yet they re- fused to return . From whence it is evi- dent , that neither taste , nor natural parts , form the creating genius that ...
... genius ; but the power of exe- cution was lost ; and although monarchs loved and courted the arts , yet they re- fused to return . From whence it is evi- dent , that neither taste , nor natural parts , form the creating genius that ...
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Sect | 1 |
Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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