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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... Truth and Sincerity . Truth and reality have all the advantages of appearance , and many more . If the shew of any thing be good for any thing , I am sure sincerity is better ; for why does any man dissemble , or seem to be that which ...
... Truth and Sincerity . Truth and reality have all the advantages of appearance , and many more . If the shew of any thing be good for any thing , I am sure sincerity is better ; for why does any man dissemble , or seem to be that which ...
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... truth . Nay , every single lye is attended with such a variety of circum- stances , which lead to a detection , that it is often discovered . The use generally made of a lye , is to cover a fault ; but as the end is seldom answered , we ...
... truth . Nay , every single lye is attended with such a variety of circum- stances , which lead to a detection , that it is often discovered . The use generally made of a lye , is to cover a fault ; but as the end is seldom answered , we ...
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... Truth , and the Degree of Evidence that ought to be expected in Divine Matters ; with an Epitome of Reasons for the Truth of the Holy Bible . If all our knowledge be derived from God , and if it has pleased God to require a certain ...
... Truth , and the Degree of Evidence that ought to be expected in Divine Matters ; with an Epitome of Reasons for the Truth of the Holy Bible . If all our knowledge be derived from God , and if it has pleased God to require a certain ...
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