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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Page xiii
... vice . When speaking in public , one should study to preserve as much dignity as poffible in the whole altitude of the body . An erect pofture is gene- rally to be chofen : ftanding firm , fo as to have the fulleft and freeft command of ...
... vice . When speaking in public , one should study to preserve as much dignity as poffible in the whole altitude of the body . An erect pofture is gene- rally to be chofen : ftanding firm , fo as to have the fulleft and freeft command of ...
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... Vice 55 Learning , its Application its Progref's 13 Love and Joy ; a Tale - 14 Scene between Col. Rivers and Sir Harry 811 .15 On Dignity of Manners Chesterf . 812 16 On Vulgarity 812 17 On Good - breeding 813 Dialogues of the Dead ...
... Vice 55 Learning , its Application its Progref's 13 Love and Joy ; a Tale - 14 Scene between Col. Rivers and Sir Harry 811 .15 On Dignity of Manners Chesterf . 812 16 On Vulgarity 812 17 On Good - breeding 813 Dialogues of the Dead ...
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... vice ; how can we fufficient- ly admire the ftupidity or madness of thofe perfons who are capable of making fo ab- furd a choice ! Every wife man , therefore , will confider this life only as it may conduce to the hap- piness of the ...
... vice ; how can we fufficient- ly admire the ftupidity or madness of thofe perfons who are capable of making fo ab- furd a choice ! Every wife man , therefore , will confider this life only as it may conduce to the hap- piness of the ...
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... vice . Thirdly , from the nature of the Supreme Being , whofe juftice , goodness , wisdom , and veracity , are all concerned in this point . But among these and other excellent ar- guments for the immortality of the foul , there is one ...
... vice . Thirdly , from the nature of the Supreme Being , whofe juftice , goodness , wisdom , and veracity , are all concerned in this point . But among these and other excellent ar- guments for the immortality of the foul , there is one ...
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... vice , the argument redou- bles upon us , for putting in practice this method of paffing away our time . When a man has but a little ftock to improve , and has opportunities of turning it all to good account , what fhall we think of him ...
... vice , the argument redou- bles upon us , for putting in practice this method of paffing away our time . When a man has but a little ftock to improve , and has opportunities of turning it all to good account , what fhall we think of him ...
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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