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 páginas An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... admire at a distance , and when any impropriety of behaviour accompanies them , we admire without love : they are like some of the distant stars , whose beneficial influence reaches not us , Whereas , of the in- fluence of gentleness ...
... admire at a distance , and when any impropriety of behaviour accompanies them , we admire without love : they are like some of the distant stars , whose beneficial influence reaches not us , Whereas , of the in- fluence of gentleness ...
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... admire the supertor eloquence of that apostle , in his manner of addressing so intelligent an audience . We cannot enough admire the sublimity of his exor- dium : the propriety of his mentioning an altar which he had found there ; and ...
... admire the supertor eloquence of that apostle , in his manner of addressing so intelligent an audience . We cannot enough admire the sublimity of his exor- dium : the propriety of his mentioning an altar which he had found there ; and ...
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... admire them when we fee them in others . Was there any of us fo void of tafte , and of fo unfeeling a temper , as not to be affected lately with the death of Rofcius ? For though he died in an advanced age , yet fuch was the excellence ...
... admire them when we fee them in others . Was there any of us fo void of tafte , and of fo unfeeling a temper , as not to be affected lately with the death of Rofcius ? For though he died in an advanced age , yet fuch was the excellence ...
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