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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... become very beneficial to mankind , unless it be under the direction of genius and good sense , it has too often happened , that the art we are now speaking of has become subservient to the wildest fanaticism , some- times to the ...
... become very beneficial to mankind , unless it be under the direction of genius and good sense , it has too often happened , that the art we are now speaking of has become subservient to the wildest fanaticism , some- times to the ...
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... become familiar , than they cease to discompose us ? Let , there- fore , our education have been the careful- lest and wisest ; let there have been used therein all the means likeliest to fix in us an abhorrence of vice ; we , yet ...
... become familiar , than they cease to discompose us ? Let , there- fore , our education have been the careful- lest and wisest ; let there have been used therein all the means likeliest to fix in us an abhorrence of vice ; we , yet ...
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... become so great a blessing . But however necessary to us know- ledge may be , religion , we know , is infi- nitely more so . The one adorns a man , and gives him , it is true , superiority and rank in life : but the other is absolutely ...
... become so great a blessing . But however necessary to us know- ledge may be , religion , we know , is infi- nitely more so . The one adorns a man , and gives him , it is true , superiority and rank in life : but the other is absolutely ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
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