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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... itself , difencum- bered of those bad paffions , and difengaged from thofe mean purfuits , which have ever been found the greatest enemies to true proficiency . Quinctilian has touched this Gonfideration very properly : « Quod " " But ...
... itself , difencum- bered of those bad paffions , and difengaged from thofe mean purfuits , which have ever been found the greatest enemies to true proficiency . Quinctilian has touched this Gonfideration very properly : « Quod " " But ...
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... itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou feeft , faid he , is that portion of eternity which is called Time , measured out by the fun , and reaching from the beginning of the world to its confummation . Examine now , faid he ...
... itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou feeft , faid he , is that portion of eternity which is called Time , measured out by the fun , and reaching from the beginning of the world to its confummation . Examine now , faid he ...
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... itself in fierceness refolution in obftinacy , wifdom in cunning , patience in fullenness and despair . Men's paffions operate variously , and appear in different kinds of actions , ac- cording as they are more or less rectified and ...
... itself in fierceness refolution in obftinacy , wifdom in cunning , patience in fullenness and despair . Men's paffions operate variously , and appear in different kinds of actions , ac- cording as they are more or less rectified and ...
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... itself in , how can our imagination fet any bounds to it ? To return , therefore , to my first thought , I could not but look upon myfelf with fe- cret horror , as a being that was not worth the smallest regard of one who had fo great a ...
... itself in , how can our imagination fet any bounds to it ? To return , therefore , to my first thought , I could not but look upon myfelf with fe- cret horror , as a being that was not worth the smallest regard of one who had fo great a ...
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... itself within the embrace of its Creator , and encom- paffed round with the immenfity of the Godhead . While we are in the body he is not lefs prefent with us , because he is concealed from us . Oh that I knew where I might find him ...
... itself within the embrace of its Creator , and encom- paffed round with the immenfity of the Godhead . While we are in the body he is not lefs prefent with us , because he is concealed from us . Oh that I knew where I might find him ...
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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