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 178
... matter , is it less strange , that a grain of corn thrown into the ground should die , and rise again with new vege- tation , than that a human body , in the same circumstances , should assume new life ? The commonness of the former ...
... matter , is it less strange , that a grain of corn thrown into the ground should die , and rise again with new vege- tation , than that a human body , in the same circumstances , should assume new life ? The commonness of the former ...
Page 257
... matter and mind . I ask , first , Do ye so well understand matter ; are your ideas of it so complete , that ye can affirm , for cer- tain , it is susceptible of nothing more than this , or that ? Are ye sure that it implies a ...
... matter and mind . I ask , first , Do ye so well understand matter ; are your ideas of it so complete , that ye can affirm , for cer- tain , it is susceptible of nothing more than this , or that ? Are ye sure that it implies a ...
Page 343
... matter , the only order below them , solidity.extension , and gravi- ty , with the addition of vegetation ; in ani mals , all the properties of matter , together with the vegetation of plants , to which is added , life and instinct ...
... matter , the only order below them , solidity.extension , and gravi- ty , with the addition of vegetation ; in ani mals , all the properties of matter , together with the vegetation of plants , to which is added , life and instinct ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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