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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... danger , yet they might often avoid it by oblique direction . It was , however , not very common to fteer with much care or prudence ; for , by fome univerfal infatuation , every man ap- peared to think himself safe , though he faw his ...
... danger , yet they might often avoid it by oblique direction . It was , however , not very common to fteer with much care or prudence ; for , by fome univerfal infatuation , every man ap- peared to think himself safe , though he faw his ...
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... danger , to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly ; he now faw how happiness is loft , when eafe is confulted ; he lamented the B 3 uhmanly unmanly impatience that prompted him to feek fhelter in the BOOK I. MORAL ¿ AND RELIGIOUS ...
... danger , to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly ; he now faw how happiness is loft , when eafe is confulted ; he lamented the B 3 uhmanly unmanly impatience that prompted him to feek fhelter in the BOOK I. MORAL ¿ AND RELIGIOUS ...
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... dangers and escape of this day , fink deep into thy heart . Remem- ber , my fon , that human life is the jour- ney ... danger and difficulty give way before him . my fon , to thy repofe ; commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence ; and ...
... dangers and escape of this day , fink deep into thy heart . Remem- ber , my fon , that human life is the jour- ney ... danger and difficulty give way before him . my fon , to thy repofe ; commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence ; and ...
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... danger by boisterous plays , or vitiat- ing their behaviour with mean company ; and that , for her part , fhe would rather follow me to the grave , than fee me tear my cloaths ,. and hang down my head , and fneak about with dirty fhoes ...
... danger by boisterous plays , or vitiat- ing their behaviour with mean company ; and that , for her part , fhe would rather follow me to the grave , than fee me tear my cloaths ,. and hang down my head , and fneak about with dirty fhoes ...
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... great principle principle within them . All the dead parts of nature i2 ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE . Ulyffes and Circe dangerous when copied without Judgment Oration of Pericles Strength of Parental Affection Remarks on the Swiftness of ...
... great principle principle within them . All the dead parts of nature i2 ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE . Ulyffes and Circe dangerous when copied without Judgment Oration of Pericles Strength of Parental Affection Remarks on the Swiftness of ...
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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