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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... ment has not operated on the Editor as a feduction to indolence , but as a fpur to fresh exertion ; and as the prefs proceeded , great additions , alterations , and im- provements , have been made in every Edition , without regard to ...
... ment has not operated on the Editor as a feduction to indolence , but as a fpur to fresh exertion ; and as the prefs proceeded , great additions , alterations , and im- provements , have been made in every Edition , without regard to ...
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... ment of the varieties and gratifications which nature offered them as the folace of their labours ; yet in effect none feemed lefs to expect deftruction than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had the art of concealing their ...
... ment of the varieties and gratifications which nature offered them as the folace of their labours ; yet in effect none feemed lefs to expect deftruction than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had the art of concealing their ...
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... ment , when he learnt that we were beings not defigned to exift in this world above threefcore and ten years ; and that the greatest part of this bufy fpecies fall fhort even of that age ! How would he be loft in horror and admiration ...
... ment , when he learnt that we were beings not defigned to exift in this world above threefcore and ten years ; and that the greatest part of this bufy fpecies fall fhort even of that age ! How would he be loft in horror and admiration ...
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... ment to the most induftrious temper , and find a man bufinefs more than the most ac- tive ftation of life . To advise the ignorant , C 3 reli relieve the needy , comfort the afflicted , are duties. BOOK I. MORAL 21 AND RELIGIOUS . Spec ...
... ment to the most induftrious temper , and find a man bufinefs more than the most ac- tive ftation of life . To advise the ignorant , C 3 reli relieve the needy , comfort the afflicted , are duties. BOOK I. MORAL 21 AND RELIGIOUS . Spec ...
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... ment and perplexity , of danger and ha- zard in it ; it is the fhorteft and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a ftrait line , and will hold out and last long- eft . The arts of deceit and cunning do continually grow weaker ...
... ment and perplexity , of danger and ha- zard in it ; it is the fhorteft and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a ftrait line , and will hold out and last long- eft . The arts of deceit and cunning do continually grow weaker ...
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