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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... perfect knowledge of it . My knowledge , and virtue , I know , will be perfected ; I know I shall comprehend truth , and obey order ; I know I shall be free from all evils , and in possession of all good ; I shall be present with God ...
... perfect knowledge of it . My knowledge , and virtue , I know , will be perfected ; I know I shall comprehend truth , and obey order ; I know I shall be free from all evils , and in possession of all good ; I shall be present with God ...
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... perfect mastery in the language we write in ; this is not so easily attained as is commonly imagined , and depends upon a competent knowledge of the force and propriety of words , a good natural taste of strength and delicacy , and all ...
... perfect mastery in the language we write in ; this is not so easily attained as is commonly imagined , and depends upon a competent knowledge of the force and propriety of words , a good natural taste of strength and delicacy , and all ...
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... perfect hero , though an im- perfect character of virtue . Horace paints him after Homer , and delivers him to be copied on the stage with all those imperfec- tions ; therefore they are either not faults in an heroic poem , or faults ...
... perfect hero , though an im- perfect character of virtue . Horace paints him after Homer , and delivers him to be copied on the stage with all those imperfec- tions ; therefore they are either not faults in an heroic poem , or faults ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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admire Æneid affections agreeable ancient appear Aristotle attention bad company beauty body cerning character Christ Christian Cicero consider dæmons death Demosthenes divine duty earth elegance endeavour evil excellent expression father favour genius give grace greatest Greece Greek happiness hath heart heaven Herodotus holy Homer honour human Ibid idolatry Iliad imagination Jews kind knowledge labour language learned ligion live Livy Lord mankind manner matter means ment mind moral nation nature neral ness never object observe ourselves Pacuvius passions perfect persons Pindar Plato pleasure poetry poets praise proper racter reason religion render Roman Sallust Scripture sense sentiments shew sion Socrates soul speak spirit style sublime Tacitus taste temper thee Theocritus thine things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth ture unto vice Virgil virtue whole wisdom wise words writing youth