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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... wise men never erred , it would go hard with the fool . Great virtue seldom descends . One wise ( in marriage ) and two happy . Almsgiving never made any man poor , nor robbery rich , nor prosperity wise . A fool and his money are soon ...
... wise men never erred , it would go hard with the fool . Great virtue seldom descends . One wise ( in marriage ) and two happy . Almsgiving never made any man poor , nor robbery rich , nor prosperity wise . A fool and his money are soon ...
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... wise . Anger dies soon with a wise and good man . He who will not be counselled , cannot be helped . God hath provided no remedy for wil ful obstinacy . All vice infatuates and corrupts the judgment . He who converses with nobody ...
... wise . Anger dies soon with a wise and good man . He who will not be counselled , cannot be helped . God hath provided no remedy for wil ful obstinacy . All vice infatuates and corrupts the judgment . He who converses with nobody ...
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... wise ; the next to tell others so ; the third to despise all counsel . If wise men play the fool , they do it with a vengeance . One fool in one house is enough in all conscience . He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play the fool ...
... wise ; the next to tell others so ; the third to despise all counsel . If wise men play the fool , they do it with a vengeance . One fool in one house is enough in all conscience . He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play the fool ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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