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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... observe it in our pronunciation . In blank verfe , where there is a greater li- berty permitted of running the lines into one another , fometimes without any fuf- penfion in the fenfe , it has been made a queftion , Whether , in reading ...
... observe it in our pronunciation . In blank verfe , where there is a greater li- berty permitted of running the lines into one another , fometimes without any fuf- penfion in the fenfe , it has been made a queftion , Whether , in reading ...
Page 69
... observe care- fully every thing that paffed in the region of Avarice , and the occurrences in that affembly , which was made up of perfons of my own age . This body of travellers had not gone far in the third great road , before it led ...
... observe care- fully every thing that paffed in the region of Avarice , and the occurrences in that affembly , which was made up of perfons of my own age . This body of travellers had not gone far in the third great road , before it led ...
Page 107
... observation in them to this effect - That , " had the enemies to Christianity expofed " its first profeflors , not to wild beafts , but " to ridicule , their endeavours to ftop its progrefs might have had very different fuccefs from ...
... observation in them to this effect - That , " had the enemies to Christianity expofed " its first profeflors , not to wild beafts , but " to ridicule , their endeavours to ftop its progrefs might have had very different fuccefs from ...
Page 114
... observing a just moderation in their food - when duly re- lieved feeking no more , and forbearing even what is before them . But below any brute is he , who , by indulging himself , has contracted wants , from which nature exempted him ...
... observing a just moderation in their food - when duly re- lieved feeking no more , and forbearing even what is before them . But below any brute is he , who , by indulging himself , has contracted wants , from which nature exempted him ...
Page 116
... observation , that it might be of use , as fhewing that they , who took the most care of their bodies and minds , lived the longest , and enjoyed the best health . To come nearer to our own times : the discovery of a new world has ...
... observation , that it might be of use , as fhewing that they , who took the most care of their bodies and minds , lived the longest , and enjoyed the best health . To come nearer to our own times : the discovery of a new world has ...
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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