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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... Learned . Learned men have marked out four of these happy ages . The first is the Grecian age , which commenced near the time of the Peloponnesian war , and extended till the time of Alexander the Great ; within which period , we have ...
... Learned . Learned men have marked out four of these happy ages . The first is the Grecian age , which commenced near the time of the Peloponnesian war , and extended till the time of Alexander the Great ; within which period , we have ...
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... learned Greeks , when they quitted the East , led the way , Moschopulus , Chry- soloras , Lascaris , Theodore Gaza ; then in Italy , Laurentius Valla ; in England , Grocin and Linacer ; in Spain , Sanctius ; in the Low Countries ...
... learned Greeks , when they quitted the East , led the way , Moschopulus , Chry- soloras , Lascaris , Theodore Gaza ; then in Italy , Laurentius Valla ; in England , Grocin and Linacer ; in Spain , Sanctius ; in the Low Countries ...
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... learned men , but fuch as were merely learned men ; he had architects ; but he had no Michael Angelo , nor Palladio he endeavoured in vain to eftablith schools for painting ; the Italian masters whom he invited to France , raised no ...
... learned men , but fuch as were merely learned men ; he had architects ; but he had no Michael Angelo , nor Palladio he endeavoured in vain to eftablith schools for painting ; the Italian masters whom he invited to France , raised no ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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