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 73
... look for clemency or gentleness from our Judge , when we are so backward to shew it to our own brethren ? Biair . $ 95 . Violence and Contention often caused by Trifles and imaginary Mischiefs . Accustom yourselves , also , to reflect ...
... look for clemency or gentleness from our Judge , when we are so backward to shew it to our own brethren ? Biair . $ 95 . Violence and Contention often caused by Trifles and imaginary Mischiefs . Accustom yourselves , also , to reflect ...
Page 94
... look only on the dark side of every object . If a new poem or play makes its appear- ance , with a thousand brilliancies , and but one or two blemishes , she slightly skims over the passages that should give her plea- sure , and dwells ...
... look only on the dark side of every object . If a new poem or play makes its appear- ance , with a thousand brilliancies , and but one or two blemishes , she slightly skims over the passages that should give her plea- sure , and dwells ...
Page 796
... look'd forwards ; but look'd as if it look'd at fomething be- yond this world . How one of his order came by it , Heaven above , who let it fall upon a Monk's thoulders , best knows ; but it would have fuited a Bramin , and had I met it ...
... look'd forwards ; but look'd as if it look'd at fomething be- yond this world . How one of his order came by it , Heaven above , who let it fall upon a Monk's thoulders , best knows ; but it would have fuited a Bramin , and had I met it ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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