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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... mind , is not only easy in his thoughts , but a perfect master of all the powers and fa- culties of the soul : his imagination is al- ways clear , and his judgment undisturbed ; his temper is even and unruffled , whether in action or ...
... mind , is not only easy in his thoughts , but a perfect master of all the powers and fa- culties of the soul : his imagination is al- ways clear , and his judgment undisturbed ; his temper is even and unruffled , whether in action or ...
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... mind af- ter the toils of the intellect , and the labours of abstract study ; and they gradually raise it above the ... mind , while bad passions possess the Interior regions of the heart . At the same time this cannot but be admitted ...
... mind af- ter the toils of the intellect , and the labours of abstract study ; and they gradually raise it above the ... mind , while bad passions possess the Interior regions of the heart . At the same time this cannot but be admitted ...
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... Mind . Upon putting together the whole of our reflections you see two different natures laying claim to the human race , and drag- ging it different ways . You see a neces- sity , that arises from our situation and cir- cumstances ...
... Mind . Upon putting together the whole of our reflections you see two different natures laying claim to the human race , and drag- ging it different ways . You see a neces- sity , that arises from our situation and cir- cumstances ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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