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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... matter is therefore collected in this volume as muft of neceffity a good deal of time , and furnish a great number of new ideas before it can be read to fatiety , or entirely exhaufted . It may therefore very properly confti- tute ...
... matter is therefore collected in this volume as muft of neceffity a good deal of time , and furnish a great number of new ideas before it can be read to fatiety , or entirely exhaufted . It may therefore very properly confti- tute ...
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... matter ; but the additions , upon the whole , are very confiderable . The utility of the collection is obvious . It is calculated for claffical fchools , and for those in which English only is taught . Young perfons cannot read a book ...
... matter ; but the additions , upon the whole , are very confiderable . The utility of the collection is obvious . It is calculated for claffical fchools , and for those in which English only is taught . Young perfons cannot read a book ...
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... matter , that it is no wonder we fo feldom meet with good readers of poe- try . There are two kinds of paufes that belong to the mufic of verfe ; one is , the paufe at the end of the line ; and the other , the cafural pause in the ...
... matter , that it is no wonder we fo feldom meet with good readers of poe- try . There are two kinds of paufes that belong to the mufic of verfe ; one is , the paufe at the end of the line ; and the other , the cafural pause in the ...
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... matter for fome study and art . For many perfons are naturally ungraceful in the motions which they make ; and this un- gracefulness might , in part at least , be re- formed by application and care . The ftudy of action in public ...
... matter for fome study and art . For many perfons are naturally ungraceful in the motions which they make ; and this un- gracefulness might , in part at least , be re- formed by application and care . The ftudy of action in public ...
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... matter not very difficult . But though fome praise be due to this , yet the idea , which I have endeavoured to give of eloquence , is much higher . It is a great exertion of the human powers . It is the art of being perfuafive and ...
... matter not very difficult . But though fome praise be due to this , yet the idea , which I have endeavoured to give of eloquence , is much higher . It is a great exertion of the human powers . It is the art of being perfuafive and ...
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