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 261
... hath been less than my knowledge , how small soever the Jatter hath been ; and that the abundant depravity of my heart hath thickened the darkness of my mind . If I consider fu- turity , I think I discover thro ' many thick clouds a ...
... hath been less than my knowledge , how small soever the Jatter hath been ; and that the abundant depravity of my heart hath thickened the darkness of my mind . If I consider fu- turity , I think I discover thro ' many thick clouds a ...
Page 367
... hath created the world in mercy and love . His goodness is conspicuous in all his works ; he is the fountain of ... hath distinguished with peculiar favour ; and exalted thy station above all creatures . He hath endued thee with reason ...
... hath created the world in mercy and love . His goodness is conspicuous in all his works ; he is the fountain of ... hath distinguished with peculiar favour ; and exalted thy station above all creatures . He hath endued thee with reason ...
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... hath not spent his life ill , who knoweth to die well ; neither can be have lost all his time , who employeth the last portion of it to his honour . He was not born in vain who dieth as he ought ; neither hath he lived unprofit- ably ...
... hath not spent his life ill , who knoweth to die well ; neither can be have lost all his time , who employeth the last portion of it to his honour . He was not born in vain who dieth as he ought ; neither hath he lived unprofit- ably ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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