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 257
... nature , the obligations , the duration of man . 1. The disciple of natural religion can only imperfectly know the nature of man , the difference of the two substances , of which he is composed . His reason , in- deed , may speculate ...
... nature , the obligations , the duration of man . 1. The disciple of natural religion can only imperfectly know the nature of man , the difference of the two substances , of which he is composed . His reason , in- deed , may speculate ...
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... nature ; we ap- prehend that you are in a great error , in taking your notions of natural law , as dis- coverable by natural reason , from the ele- gant systems of it , which have been drawn up by Christian philosophers ; since they ...
... nature ; we ap- prehend that you are in a great error , in taking your notions of natural law , as dis- coverable by natural reason , from the ele- gant systems of it , which have been drawn up by Christian philosophers ; since they ...
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... nature , sculpture and figure- painting is a kind of description , which , like poetry , is under the direction of ge- nius ; that , while it preserves nature , some- times , in a fine flight of fancy , throws au ideal splendor over the ...
... nature , sculpture and figure- painting is a kind of description , which , like poetry , is under the direction of ge- nius ; that , while it preserves nature , some- times , in a fine flight of fancy , throws au ideal splendor over the ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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