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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... practice , were wretchedly qualified to do either in their native language . From this unhappy circumftance , claffical education was brought into fome degree of difgrace ; and it was certainly prepofterous , to study during many of the ...
... practice , were wretchedly qualified to do either in their native language . From this unhappy circumftance , claffical education was brought into fome degree of difgrace ; and it was certainly prepofterous , to study during many of the ...
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... practice , under the fuperintendance of a mafter , than on written precepts ; and this book profeffes to offer matter for practice , rather than fyftematic inftructions , which may be more advantageously given in a rhetorical treatife ...
... practice , under the fuperintendance of a mafter , than on written precepts ; and this book profeffes to offer matter for practice , rather than fyftematic inftructions , which may be more advantageously given in a rhetorical treatife ...
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... Harshness of 393 the Dry the Plain 394 394 33 Practice neceffary for forming a Style 34 Words , too anxious a Care about to be avoided - 401 402 b 35 Acquaintance Sect . Sect . 35 Acquaintance with the beft Authors CONT TEN EN T S.
... Harshness of 393 the Dry the Plain 394 394 33 Practice neceffary for forming a Style 34 Words , too anxious a Care about to be avoided - 401 402 b 35 Acquaintance Sect . Sect . 35 Acquaintance with the beft Authors CONT TEN EN T S.
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... Practice easy 482 240 Criterion of Taffe 189 The Conftituent Parts of every Whole merit our Regard 577 241 On Mr. Pope's Houfe at Binfield 579 483 242 Ufe of Ancient Mythology 580 190 Verbal Decorations not Minutia 483 243 Delicacy of ...
... Practice easy 482 240 Criterion of Taffe 189 The Conftituent Parts of every Whole merit our Regard 577 241 On Mr. Pope's Houfe at Binfield 579 483 242 Ufe of Ancient Mythology 580 190 Verbal Decorations not Minutia 483 243 Delicacy of ...
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... practice , we adhere to the wrong fide of the queftion . We make pro- vifions for this life , as though it were never to have an end ; and for the other life , as though it were never to have a beginning . Should a fpirit of fuperior ...
... practice , we adhere to the wrong fide of the queftion . We make pro- vifions for this life , as though it were never to have an end ; and for the other life , as though it were never to have a beginning . Should a fpirit of fuperior ...
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