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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... tion with greater intenseness . My birth was celebrated by the tenants with feasts , and dances , and bagpipes ; congratulations were sent from every family within ten miles round ; and my parents discovered in my first cries , such ...
... tion with greater intenseness . My birth was celebrated by the tenants with feasts , and dances , and bagpipes ; congratulations were sent from every family within ten miles round ; and my parents discovered in my first cries , such ...
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... tion ; 1 , probably , should be thought im- pertinent , for introducing such a subject ; and I certainly should soon ... tion ; tion ; and begin with what , certainly , should BOOK I. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS . 139.
... tion ; 1 , probably , should be thought im- pertinent , for introducing such a subject ; and I certainly should soon ... tion ; tion ; and begin with what , certainly , should BOOK I. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS . 139.
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... tion Cicero , or Cato , or Brutus ? The orations , the epistles , and the philosophi- cal works of the first , shew him sufficiently conversant both in action and contempla- tion . So eager was Cato for knowledge , even when surrounded ...
... tion Cicero , or Cato , or Brutus ? The orations , the epistles , and the philosophi- cal works of the first , shew him sufficiently conversant both in action and contempla- tion . So eager was Cato for knowledge , even when surrounded ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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