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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... lives . His first life is fhort and tranfient ; his fecond , per- manent and lailing . The queftion we are ali concerned in is this , In which of thofe two lives is it our chief intereft to make ourfelves happy ? or , in other words ...
... lives . His first life is fhort and tranfient ; his fecond , per- manent and lailing . The queftion we are ali concerned in is this , In which of thofe two lives is it our chief intereft to make ourfelves happy ? or , in other words ...
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... live by my learning ; for indeed , he had known very few ftudents that had not fome flift- nefs in their manner . They therefore agreed , that a domeftic tutor fhould be procured ; and hired an honeft gentleman of mean converfation and ...
... live by my learning ; for indeed , he had known very few ftudents that had not fome flift- nefs in their manner . They therefore agreed , that a domeftic tutor fhould be procured ; and hired an honeft gentleman of mean converfation and ...
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... live ten thousand more , would be the fame thing he is at prefent . Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her accomplishments , were her fa- culties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall ...
... live ten thousand more , would be the fame thing he is at prefent . Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her accomplishments , were her fa- culties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall ...
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... live within the influence of them . My fon and I are not of fortune to communicate our good actions or inten- tions to fo many as thefe gentlemen do ; but I will be bold to fay , my fon has , by the applaufe and approbation which his ...
... live within the influence of them . My fon and I are not of fortune to communicate our good actions or inten- tions to fo many as thefe gentlemen do ; but I will be bold to fay , my fon has , by the applaufe and approbation which his ...
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... live thoughtless of the paft , and careless of the future , without will , and perhaps with- out power to compute the periods of life , or to compare the time which is already loft with that which may probably re- main . • But the ...
... live thoughtless of the paft , and careless of the future , without will , and perhaps with- out power to compute the periods of life , or to compare the time which is already loft with that which may probably re- main . • But the ...
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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