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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Page iii
... character of good and valuable , and therefore wants not the pafport of praife . Every page Speaks in its own favour , in the modeft language of merit , which has no occafion to boast , though it cannot renounce its right to just efteem ...
... character of good and valuable , and therefore wants not the pafport of praife . Every page Speaks in its own favour , in the modeft language of merit , which has no occafion to boast , though it cannot renounce its right to just efteem ...
Page ix
... character and eminence . Betrayeft thou the Son of man with a kifs ? turns it upon his proftituting the fig nal of ... characters , which , as to the effect , is juft the fame with ufing no fuch diftinctions at all . Next to emphafis ...
... character and eminence . Betrayeft thou the Son of man with a kifs ? turns it upon his proftituting the fig nal of ... characters , which , as to the effect , is juft the fame with ufing no fuch diftinctions at all . Next to emphafis ...
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... character " and difpofition . In order to be a truly elo- quent or perfuafive fpeaker , nothing is more necessary ... character must have a much more powerful effect . But , left it should be said , that this relates only to the ...
... character " and difpofition . In order to be a truly elo- quent or perfuafive fpeaker , nothing is more necessary ... character must have a much more powerful effect . But , left it should be said , that this relates only to the ...
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... Character of St. Paul 235 Of the Epiftles 349 270 The Soul of Man - 368 350 271 The Period of Human Life 369 Man ... Characters of - Concife 391 27 of Mr. Addifon's Style 399 391 28 of Style never wearies Auftere , Florid , and Middle ...
... Character of St. Paul 235 Of the Epiftles 349 270 The Soul of Man - 368 350 271 The Period of Human Life 369 Man ... Characters of - Concife 391 27 of Mr. Addifon's Style 399 391 28 of Style never wearies Auftere , Florid , and Middle ...
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... Character of the Man of Buûnefa often united with that of the Scholar and Philofopher 499 500 500 502 -505 166 The beft Authors to be often read 167 Rife of Philofophical Criticism 168 Greek Authors of Ditto - 472 Harris . 472 217 ...
... Character of the Man of Buûnefa often united with that of the Scholar and Philofopher 499 500 500 502 -505 166 The beft Authors to be often read 167 Rife of Philofophical Criticism 168 Greek Authors of Ditto - 472 Harris . 472 217 ...
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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