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 144
... greater evil , than to struggle for years with disease and pain , despairing of cure , and even of any long intervals of ease . Such , ordinarily , is our love of life . And this desire to keep it cannot but be greatly increased , when ...
... greater evil , than to struggle for years with disease and pain , despairing of cure , and even of any long intervals of ease . Such , ordinarily , is our love of life . And this desire to keep it cannot but be greatly increased , when ...
Page 371
... greater and the present swallow up the lesser and the past . Our terrors are real evils ; our expectations look forward into improbabilities . Fools , to dread as mortals , and to de- sire as if immortal ! What part of life is it that ...
... greater and the present swallow up the lesser and the past . Our terrors are real evils ; our expectations look forward into improbabilities . Fools , to dread as mortals , and to de- sire as if immortal ! What part of life is it that ...
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... greater curses they become . The use of it is not confined to any one stage of our existence or to any particular situation we can be in , but reaches through all the periods and circumstances of our beings . Many of the endowments and ...
... greater curses they become . The use of it is not confined to any one stage of our existence or to any particular situation we can be in , but reaches through all the periods and circumstances of our beings . Many of the endowments and ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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