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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... Authorities alledged 482 238 Upon Grace in Writing 574 187 Objectors answered 482 239 Style of Horace in his Moral Writings 575 188 Habit makes Practice easy 482 240 Criterion of Taffe 189 The Conftituent Parts of every Whole merit our ...
... Authorities alledged 482 238 Upon Grace in Writing 574 187 Objectors answered 482 239 Style of Horace in his Moral Writings 575 188 Habit makes Practice easy 482 240 Criterion of Taffe 189 The Conftituent Parts of every Whole merit our ...
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... authority in the stables , and now and then , after a fuper- numerary bottle , broke a looking - glafs or china - dish to prove his fovereignty , the whole courfe of the year was regulated by her direction , the fervants received from ...
... authority in the stables , and now and then , after a fuper- numerary bottle , broke a looking - glafs or china - dish to prove his fovereignty , the whole courfe of the year was regulated by her direction , the fervants received from ...
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... authority of reafon , and range capri- cioufly from one object to another . • ; The difpofition to defer every important defign to a time of leifure , and a state of fettled uniformity , proceeds generally from a falfe eftimate of the ...
... authority of reafon , and range capri- cioufly from one object to another . • ; The difpofition to defer every important defign to a time of leifure , and a state of fettled uniformity , proceeds generally from a falfe eftimate of the ...
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... authority , too weak to be conducted by reason . Seed . § 48. Irregularities of a Few bring Cenfure on the Whole . It were to be wifhed , that they who claim greater indulgences , would feriously reflect , that the glaring ...
... authority , too weak to be conducted by reason . Seed . § 48. Irregularities of a Few bring Cenfure on the Whole . It were to be wifhed , that they who claim greater indulgences , would feriously reflect , that the glaring ...
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... authority to counfel . To de- fire the efteem of others for the fake of its effects , is not only allowable , but in many cafes is our duty and to be totally indifferent to praise or cenfure , is fo far from being a virtue , that it is ...
... authority to counfel . To de- fire the efteem of others for the fake of its effects , is not only allowable , but in many cafes is our duty and to be totally indifferent to praise or cenfure , is fo far from being a virtue , that it is ...
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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