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 411
... writing at the same time . Besides , he had a redundant genius ; and almost always chose rather to indulge , than to ... writing , I should be inclined to insert Phædrus . For though he published after the good man- ner of writing was in ...
... writing at the same time . Besides , he had a redundant genius ; and almost always chose rather to indulge , than to ... writing , I should be inclined to insert Phædrus . For though he published after the good man- ner of writing was in ...
Page 427
... writing in a closet , in or- der to be read by others . They have all the copiousness , the fervour , the inculcating method , that is allowable and graceful in an orator ; perhaps too much of it for a writer : and it is to be regretted ...
... writing in a closet , in or- der to be read by others . They have all the copiousness , the fervour , the inculcating method , that is allowable and graceful in an orator ; perhaps too much of it for a writer : and it is to be regretted ...
Page 449
... Writing . Its first and fundamental requisite is , to be natural and simple ; for a stiff and la- boured manner is as bad in a letter as it is in conversation . This does not banish sprightliness and wit . These are graceful in letters ...
... Writing . Its first and fundamental requisite is , to be natural and simple ; for a stiff and la- boured manner is as bad in a letter as it is in conversation . This does not banish sprightliness and wit . These are graceful in letters ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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