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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... hands , confifts the chief part of gefture in fpeaking . The Ancients condemned all motions performed by the left hand alone ; but I am not fenfible , that thefe are always offenfive , though it is natural for the right hand to I fhall ...
... hands , confifts the chief part of gefture in fpeaking . The Ancients condemned all motions performed by the left hand alone ; but I am not fenfible , that thefe are always offenfive , though it is natural for the right hand to I fhall ...
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... hand . As I looked upon him , he applied it to his lips , and began to play upon it . The found of it was exceeding fweet , and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpreffibly me- lodious , and altogether different from any ...
... hand . As I looked upon him , he applied it to his lips , and began to play upon it . The found of it was exceeding fweet , and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpreffibly me- lodious , and altogether different from any ...
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... hand , for the beafts of the defert were in motion , and on every hand were heard the mingled howls of rage and fear , and ra- vage and expiration ; all the horrors of darkness and folitude furrounded him ; the winds roared in the woods ...
... hand , for the beafts of the defert were in motion , and on every hand were heard the mingled howls of rage and fear , and ra- vage and expiration ; all the horrors of darkness and folitude furrounded him ; the winds roared in the woods ...
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... hands , and which is filled with his prefence . Others have confider- ed infinite fpace as the receptacle , or ra ... hand that I cannot see him . In fhort , reafon as well as reve- lation , affures us , that he cannot be abfent from ...
... hands , and which is filled with his prefence . Others have confider- ed infinite fpace as the receptacle , or ra ... hand that I cannot see him . In fhort , reafon as well as reve- lation , affures us , that he cannot be abfent from ...
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... hand , and ready to be poured in upon us ; especially when we confider , Second- ly , the deplorable condition of an intellec- tual being , who feels no other effects from his Maker's prefence , but fuch as proceed from divine wrath and ...
... hand , and ready to be poured in upon us ; especially when we confider , Second- ly , the deplorable condition of an intellec- tual being , who feels no other effects from his Maker's prefence , but fuch as proceed from divine wrath and ...
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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