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Perhaps nothing sooner share in the common stock of happiness , misleads men
ont of the road of truth , than who does not endeavour to contribute his to have
the wild , dancing light of a bright quota or allotted part to it : the public
imagination ...
Perhaps nothing sooner share in the common stock of happiness , misleads men
ont of the road of truth , than who does not endeavour to contribute his to have
the wild , dancing light of a bright quota or allotted part to it : the public
imagination ...
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You may not , perhaps , be ance - he seldom is , what the use of his unwilling to
have a distinct view of the reason , or what his own inclinations , reasons , upon
which I assert this . would make him . I will enter upon them in my next . Are the ...
You may not , perhaps , be ance - he seldom is , what the use of his unwilling to
have a distinct view of the reason , or what his own inclinations , reasons , upon
which I assert this . would make him . I will enter upon them in my next . Are the ...
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teach hini to live unsettled , and without Few , perhaps , wander among the
laurels care , like a true poet , of Parnassus , but who have reason andently Such
are the ridiculous , anil such the to wish and in exclaim with Æneas , thao '
pitiabie ...
teach hini to live unsettled , and without Few , perhaps , wander among the
laurels care , like a true poet , of Parnassus , but who have reason andently Such
are the ridiculous , anil such the to wish and in exclaim with Æneas , thao '
pitiabie ...
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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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