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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... reason why the law should direct , “ Nei- ther shall a garment of linen and woollen come upon thee ; " when we understand , that such mixed garments of linen and woollen were the proper habits of idola- troas priests ; and which ...
... reason why the law should direct , “ Nei- ther shall a garment of linen and woollen come upon thee ; " when we understand , that such mixed garments of linen and woollen were the proper habits of idola- troas priests ; and which ...
Page 266
... reason , but he has been pleased to descend to us ; and what Socrates said of him , what Plato writ , and the rest of the Heathen philo- sophers of several nations , is all no more than the twilight of revelation , after the sun of it ...
... reason , but he has been pleased to descend to us ; and what Socrates said of him , what Plato writ , and the rest of the Heathen philo- sophers of several nations , is all no more than the twilight of revelation , after the sun of it ...
Page 343
... reason , where , in the dog , the monkey , and the chimpanze , it unites so closely with the lowest degree of that quality in man , that they cannot easily be , distin- guished from each other . From this lowest degree in the brutal ...
... reason , where , in the dog , the monkey , and the chimpanze , it unites so closely with the lowest degree of that quality in man , that they cannot easily be , distin- guished from each other . From this lowest degree in the brutal ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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