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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Page 220
... whole people , by public glorious miracles , from intolerable slavery ? To publish a very extraordinary system of laws imme- diately from heaven ? To put this law in writing together with the covenant for the obeying it ? To make the ...
... whole people , by public glorious miracles , from intolerable slavery ? To publish a very extraordinary system of laws imme- diately from heaven ? To put this law in writing together with the covenant for the obeying it ? To make the ...
Page 483
... whole work , as an acorn , when deve-. the several energies of their proper arts ? How little do even the rigid laws ... Whole , the constituent Parts , and the facility of their Coinci- dence , merit our Regard . In every whole , whether ...
... whole work , as an acorn , when deve-. the several energies of their proper arts ? How little do even the rigid laws ... Whole , the constituent Parts , and the facility of their Coinci- dence , merit our Regard . In every whole , whether ...
Page 519
... whole action from the beginning . It puts the passions in motion gradually , and winds them up by successive efforts , that all conduce to the intended effect ; the mind could never be agitated so violently , if the storm had not come ...
... whole action from the beginning . It puts the passions in motion gradually , and winds them up by successive efforts , that all conduce to the intended effect ; the mind could never be agitated so violently , if the storm had not come ...
Contents
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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