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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... thee in thy foliloquies ; follow me . He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock , and placing me on the top of it , Caft thy eyes eastward , faid he , and tell me what thou feeft . I fee , faid I , a huge valley , and a ...
... thee in thy foliloquies ; follow me . He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock , and placing me on the top of it , Caft thy eyes eastward , faid he , and tell me what thou feeft . I fee , faid I , a huge valley , and a ...
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... told me there was no paffage to them , except through the gates of death that I faw opening every moment upon the bridge . The iflands , faid he , that lie fa fo fresh and green before thee , and with which 2 ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE .
... told me there was no paffage to them , except through the gates of death that I faw opening every moment upon the bridge . The iflands , faid he , that lie fa fo fresh and green before thee , and with which 2 ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE .
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... thee opportunities of earning fuch a re- ward ? Is death to be feared , that will convey thee to fo happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain , who has fuch an eternity referved for him . - I gazed with inexpreffible pleasure ...
... thee opportunities of earning fuch a re- ward ? Is death to be feared , that will convey thee to fo happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain , who has fuch an eternity referved for him . - I gazed with inexpreffible pleasure ...
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... thee , fo that I am become a burden to my- felf ? ' But , thirdly , how happy is the condition of that intellectual being , who is fenfible of his Maker's prefence from the fecret effects of his mercy and loving- kindness ! The bleffed ...
... thee , fo that I am become a burden to my- felf ? ' But , thirdly , how happy is the condition of that intellectual being , who is fenfible of his Maker's prefence from the fecret effects of his mercy and loving- kindness ! The bleffed ...
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... thee , in what manner life may " be beft improved . I am enabled to " look back with pleafure , and forward " with ... thee will I relate the events " of my youth , which thou haft renewed " before me ; and those truths which they ...
... thee , in what manner life may " be beft improved . I am enabled to " look back with pleafure , and forward " with ... thee will I relate the events " of my youth , which thou haft renewed " before me ; and those truths which they ...
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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