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 192
... particular Persons -Duty of Children to Parents - Respect and Obedience - in what the former con- sists - in what the latter - succouring a Parent - brotherly Affection - Obedi- ence to Law - founded on the Advan tages of Society . From ...
... particular Persons -Duty of Children to Parents - Respect and Obedience - in what the former con- sists - in what the latter - succouring a Parent - brotherly Affection - Obedi- ence to Law - founded on the Advan tages of Society . From ...
Page 409
... particular , though in general that is not his character , so much as exactness . " He was certainly the most correct poet even of his time ; in which all false thoughts and idle ornaments in writing were discouraged : and it is as ...
... particular , though in general that is not his character , so much as exactness . " He was certainly the most correct poet even of his time ; in which all false thoughts and idle ornaments in writing were discouraged : and it is as ...
Page 412
... particular manner . The wonder is , when they had got so far to- ward perfection , that they should fall as it were ... particular translated Aratus ; and there particular translated Aratus ; and there are some ( I do not well know on ...
... particular manner . The wonder is , when they had got so far to- ward perfection , that they should fall as it were ... particular translated Aratus ; and there particular translated Aratus ; and there are some ( I do not well know on ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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