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 147
... happiness in another world , his conduct will be regular , becom ing , rational and , that where we find these hopes entertained on mature consi- deration , justly reasoned upon , duly at- tended to , there we certainly find great ...
... happiness in another world , his conduct will be regular , becom ing , rational and , that where we find these hopes entertained on mature consi- deration , justly reasoned upon , duly at- tended to , there we certainly find great ...
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... happiness , yet we can easily gather a few circumstances , which must of course attend it ; as , that it will be very great - that it will last for ever - that it will be of a nature entirely different from the happiness of this world ...
... happiness , yet we can easily gather a few circumstances , which must of course attend it ; as , that it will be very great - that it will last for ever - that it will be of a nature entirely different from the happiness of this world ...
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... happiness and misery necessa- rily connected with riches and poverty . Each condition hath its particular sources both of pleasure and pain , unknown to the other . Those in elevated stations have a thousand latent pangs , of which ...
... happiness and misery necessa- rily connected with riches and poverty . Each condition hath its particular sources both of pleasure and pain , unknown to the other . Those in elevated stations have a thousand latent pangs , of which ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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