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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... persons , who treat this principle as chimerical , and turn it into ridicule . Men who are professedly of no honour , are of a more profligate and abandoned nature than even those who are actuated by false no- tions of it ; as there is ...
... persons , who treat this principle as chimerical , and turn it into ridicule . Men who are professedly of no honour , are of a more profligate and abandoned nature than even those who are actuated by false no- tions of it ; as there is ...
Page 468
... persons with whom we converse . They instruct their readers in the methods of engaging and preserving friends ; and reveal to them the true secret of pleasing mankind . This is a large and agreeable field ; but I shall confine myself to ...
... persons with whom we converse . They instruct their readers in the methods of engaging and preserving friends ; and reveal to them the true secret of pleasing mankind . This is a large and agreeable field ; but I shall confine myself to ...
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... person , how ever graceful , is dangerous , lest the af- fectation appear ; but the unstudied ele- gance of nature is acquired by the ex- ample and conversation of several elegant persons of different characters , which peo- the fashion ...
... person , how ever graceful , is dangerous , lest the af- fectation appear ; but the unstudied ele- gance of nature is acquired by the ex- ample and conversation of several elegant persons of different characters , which peo- the fashion ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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