Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volume 1T. Longman, B. Law&Son, J. Dodsley, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G.&J. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Richardson, R. Baldwin, W. Goldsmith, F.&C. Rivington, R. Faulder, S. Hayes, Ogilvy&Speare, Vernor&Hood, W. Lowndes, C. Wynne, W. Bent, J. Scatcherd, G.&T. Wilkie, J. Walker, J. Evans, C.&G. Kearsley, and H. Murray, 1794 - 1119 pages |
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... State of Poetry among the Romans → 408 - 112 Great Men ufually cotemporary 113 Four Ages marked out by the Learned -- 444 Blair . 445 445 48 Obfervations on the Æneid 4.09 114 Reputation of the Ancients - 445 49 Of Horace 410 115 ...
... State of Poetry among the Romans → 408 - 112 Great Men ufually cotemporary 113 Four Ages marked out by the Learned -- 444 Blair . 445 445 48 Obfervations on the Æneid 4.09 114 Reputation of the Ancients - 445 49 Of Horace 410 115 ...
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... states of being , fhould be perpetually employed in providing for a life of threescore and ten years , and neglecting to make provifion for that which , after many myriads of years , will be still new , and still beginning ; efpecially ...
... states of being , fhould be perpetually employed in providing for a life of threescore and ten years , and neglecting to make provifion for that which , after many myriads of years , will be still new , and still beginning ; efpecially ...
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... state of annihilation . But can we believe a thinking being , that is in a perpetual progrefs of improvements , and travelling on from perfection to perfection , after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator , and made a ...
... state of annihilation . But can we believe a thinking being , that is in a perpetual progrefs of improvements , and travelling on from perfection to perfection , after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator , and made a ...
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... state of existence , by unremitted vigilance of caution , and activity of virtue . The duties required of man are fuch as human nature does not willingly per- form , and fuch as thofe are inclined to de- lay who yet intend fome time to ...
... state of existence , by unremitted vigilance of caution , and activity of virtue . The duties required of man are fuch as human nature does not willingly per- form , and fuch as thofe are inclined to de- lay who yet intend fome time to ...
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... state of things , which his fyftem of opinions obliged him to re- prefent in its worst form , has obferved of the earth , " That its greater part is CO- vered by the uninhabitable ocean ; that of the reft , fome is encumbered with naked ...
... state of things , which his fyftem of opinions obliged him to re- prefent in its worst form , has obferved of the earth , " That its greater part is CO- vered by the uninhabitable ocean ; that of the reft , fome is encumbered with naked ...
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affiftance againſt alfo bad company becauſe beft beſt bleffings cafe caufe chearful chearfulneſs Chrift Chriftian confequence confider confideration converfation courfe defign defire difcover difpofed difpofition divine duty endeavour faid fame fecurity feek feem felves fenfe fenfible fent fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fociety fome foon foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fupport fure give greateſt happineſs happy hath heart himſelf honour human inftances intereft itſelf juft laft leaft lefs ligion mankind manner ment mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafion ourſelves paffed paffions perfons philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffefs poffible prefent preferve purpoſe racter raiſe reafon refpect reft religion ſhall ſpeak ſtate temper thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion truth underſtanding univerfal uſe virtue whofe wifdom youth