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6 srit , and persist therein with greater res , We are thus to seek our most perfect
scution and steadiness . state , such as allows us the freest use of The
soundness of the bo ly can be thus our several powers a fun liberty for the
serviceable to ...
6 srit , and persist therein with greater res , We are thus to seek our most perfect
scution and steadiness . state , such as allows us the freest use of The
soundness of the bo ly can be thus our several powers a fun liberty for the
serviceable to ...
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... The first thing requisite to a just style , and expressive : but in a few years after
is a perfect mastery in the language we the ladies and beaux of Rome affected to
write in ; this is not so easily attained as is speak Greek , and regarding nothing ...
... The first thing requisite to a just style , and expressive : but in a few years after
is a perfect mastery in the language we the ladies and beaux of Rome affected to
write in ; this is not so easily attained as is speak Greek , and regarding nothing ...
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They drama wholly fabulous , or of the poet's ale poetically good , if they are ( of a
- piece . invention , yet heroic poetry gave him the Though where a character of
perfect viriue examples of that invention ; because it was is set before us , ' tis ...
They drama wholly fabulous , or of the poet's ale poetically good , if they are ( of a
- piece . invention , yet heroic poetry gave him the Though where a character of
perfect viriue examples of that invention ; because it was is set before us , ' tis ...
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Contents
Authe Pas | 1 |
Practice necessary for forming a Syle Blair 401 95 On Plainness and Perspicuity Felton 436 | 34 |
Excellenceofthe Sacred Writings Brown | 305 |
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| Title | Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry |
| Editor | Vicesimus Knox |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1808 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 1 pages |
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