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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... attention . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the greatest trials of a true and just " taste ; and must arise from feeling deli- cately ourselves , and from judging accu- rately of what is fittest to ...
... attention . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the greatest trials of a true and just " taste ; and must arise from feeling deli- cately ourselves , and from judging accu- rately of what is fittest to ...
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... attention to them in our youth . If we do not , it is more than probable that we shall never do it : that we shall grow old in ignorance , by neglecting the one ; and old in vice by neglecting the other . For improvement in knowledge ...
... attention to them in our youth . If we do not , it is more than probable that we shall never do it : that we shall grow old in ignorance , by neglecting the one ; and old in vice by neglecting the other . For improvement in knowledge ...
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... attention . attention is shewn in the choice of his words , and in a graceful collocation of them ; rather than in any high efforts of imagination , or eloquence . His sentences are always clean , and free from the in- cumbrance of ...
... attention . attention is shewn in the choice of his words , and in a graceful collocation of them ; rather than in any high efforts of imagination , or eloquence . His sentences are always clean , and free from the in- cumbrance of ...
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