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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... soul , and whom he looks upon as his defender , his glory , and the lifter - up of his head . In his deepest solitude and retirement , be knows that he is in company with the greatest of beings ; and perceives within himself such real ...
... soul , and whom he looks upon as his defender , his glory , and the lifter - up of his head . In his deepest solitude and retirement , be knows that he is in company with the greatest of beings ; and perceives within himself such real ...
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... souls . 2. The Scriptures give the most faith- ful representation of the state and condi- tion of the soul of man . The world was almost lost in disputes concerning the na- ture , condition , and immortality of the soul before divine ...
... souls . 2. The Scriptures give the most faith- ful representation of the state and condi- tion of the soul of man . The world was almost lost in disputes concerning the na- ture , condition , and immortality of the soul before divine ...
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... soul , and those of the body , is so close , that all the philosophers in the world cannot certainly determine , whe- ther the operations of the body ceasing , the operations of the soul do not cease with them . I see a body in perfect ...
... soul , and those of the body , is so close , that all the philosophers in the world cannot certainly determine , whe- ther the operations of the body ceasing , the operations of the soul do not cease with them . I see a body in perfect ...
Contents
Sect | 1 |
Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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