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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... less distinguished for some of the high virtues , as public spirit and zeal for their country , than for eloquence . Beyond doubt , to these vir- tues their eloquence owed much of its ef- fect ; and those orations of theirs , in which ...
... less distinguished for some of the high virtues , as public spirit and zeal for their country , than for eloquence . Beyond doubt , to these vir- tues their eloquence owed much of its ef- fect ; and those orations of theirs , in which ...
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... less dangerous attachments of advancing years ; when the passions which are con- nected with interest and ambition ... less pernicious to the Mind , than Coldness and Indifference in Religion . But whatever absurdities may arise from the ...
... less dangerous attachments of advancing years ; when the passions which are con- nected with interest and ambition ... less pernicious to the Mind , than Coldness and Indifference in Religion . But whatever absurdities may arise from the ...
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... less favoura- ble to us than the present ; but to derive from this every advantage it is capable of yielding us . Further , if according to the greater or less use of which we make ourselves to our fellow creatures , we more or less ...
... less favoura- ble to us than the present ; but to derive from this every advantage it is capable of yielding us . Further , if according to the greater or less use of which we make ourselves to our fellow creatures , we more or less ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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