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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... obferver any just pretenfions to it . It even appeared with marks of inferiority when brought into occafional collifion • with well - informed understandings cultivated by English literature A with OHE Story of Le Fevre Yorick's Death.
... obferver any just pretenfions to it . It even appeared with marks of inferiority when brought into occafional collifion • with well - informed understandings cultivated by English literature A with OHE Story of Le Fevre Yorick's Death.
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Vicesimus Knox. • with well - informed understandings cultivated by English literature alone , but improved in the School of experience . Perfons who had never drunk at the claffic fountains , but had been confined in their education to ...
Vicesimus Knox. • with well - informed understandings cultivated by English literature alone , but improved in the School of experience . Perfons who had never drunk at the claffic fountains , but had been confined in their education to ...
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... understanding , is so very nice a 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 ...
... understanding , is so very nice a 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 ...
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... understanding and to the heart ; of interefting the hearers in such a degree , as to feize and carry them along with us ; and to leave them with a deep and ftrong impreffion of what they have heard . How many talents , natural and ...
... understanding and to the heart ; of interefting the hearers in such a degree , as to feize and carry them along with us ; and to leave them with a deep and ftrong impreffion of what they have heard . How many talents , natural and ...
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... understanding , that they decla- red themselves determined to devote the remaining part of life to my happinefs and the encrease of their eftate . The abilities of my father and mother were not perceptibly unequal , and educa- tion had ...
... understanding , that they decla- red themselves determined to devote the remaining part of life to my happinefs and the encrease of their eftate . The abilities of my father and mother were not perceptibly unequal , and educa- tion had ...
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