Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 Seiten An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... Romans ever had . Spence . $ 45 . Of the Rise of Salire : Of LUCILIUS , LUCRETIUS , and CATULLUS . : All this while , that is , for abave one hundred years , the stage , as you see , was almost solely in possession of the Roman poets ...
... Romans ever had . Spence . $ 45 . Of the Rise of Salire : Of LUCILIUS , LUCRETIUS , and CATULLUS . : All this while , that is , for abave one hundred years , the stage , as you see , was almost solely in possession of the Roman poets ...
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... Roman ear ! -O facred privilege of Roman citizenship ! -once facred ! -- now trampled upon ! —But what then ? Is it come to this ! Shall an inferior magi- strate , a governor who holds his whole power of the Roman people , in a Roman ...
... Roman ear ! -O facred privilege of Roman citizenship ! -once facred ! -- now trampled upon ! —But what then ? Is it come to this ! Shall an inferior magi- strate , a governor who holds his whole power of the Roman people , in a Roman ...
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... Roman historian and commentator , killed . Duncan . Diodorus Siculus , of Greece , the universal historian , fi . Booth . Virtruvius , the Roman architect , fl . 43 Cicero , the Roman orator and philosopher , put to death . Guthrie ...
... Roman historian and commentator , killed . Duncan . Diodorus Siculus , of Greece , the universal historian , fi . Booth . Virtruvius , the Roman architect , fl . 43 Cicero , the Roman orator and philosopher , put to death . Guthrie ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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