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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... common language of our streets , it is no wonder that people make light of oaths on every occasion ; and that judicial , commercial , and official oaths , are all treated with much indifference . Thirdly , common swearing may be ...
... common language of our streets , it is no wonder that people make light of oaths on every occasion ; and that judicial , commercial , and official oaths , are all treated with much indifference . Thirdly , common swearing may be ...
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... common genius " thinks so plain , that any body may reach " it , and findeth so very elegant , that all " his sweat , and pains , and study , fail " him in the attempt . ” 46 In reading the excellent authors of the Roman tongue ...
... common genius " thinks so plain , that any body may reach " it , and findeth so very elegant , that all " his sweat , and pains , and study , fail " him in the attempt . ” 46 In reading the excellent authors of the Roman tongue ...
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... common spectator , con- tents himself with relating that it is great or little , mean or splendid , lofty or low ; all these words are intelligible and common , but they convey no distinct or limited ideas ; if he attempts , without the ...
... common spectator , con- tents himself with relating that it is great or little , mean or splendid , lofty or low ; all these words are intelligible and common , but they convey no distinct or limited ideas ; if he attempts , without the ...
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