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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... observe this law , and all that was contained in it : and God became bound to be the God of the Is- raelitish people , to protect , and prosper them and this covenant , towards the end of their sojourning in the wilderness , was ...
... observe this law , and all that was contained in it : and God became bound to be the God of the Is- raelitish people , to protect , and prosper them and this covenant , towards the end of their sojourning in the wilderness , was ...
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... observe a regular motion round their axis like that of our Earth . causing an alternate return of day and night ; which is necessary for labour , rest , and vegetation , and that all parts of their surfaces may be exposed to the rays of ...
... observe a regular motion round their axis like that of our Earth . causing an alternate return of day and night ; which is necessary for labour , rest , and vegetation , and that all parts of their surfaces may be exposed to the rays of ...
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... observe , one redundant expression ; but his words are all weighed and chosen , so expressive and significant , that I will challenge any critic to take a sentence of his , and express it clearer or better ; his contraction seems ...
... observe , one redundant expression ; but his words are all weighed and chosen , so expressive and significant , that I will challenge any critic to take a sentence of his , and express it clearer or better ; his contraction seems ...
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