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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... Ancients and Moderns 447 51 - Phædrus 411 118 Assiduous Study of the Greek and 52 - Manilius 411 Roman Classics recommended 447 53 the Poets whose Works have not come down to us 119 Excellencies of the ancient Historians- 448 412 120 54 ...
... Ancients and Moderns 447 51 - Phædrus 411 118 Assiduous Study of the Greek and 52 - Manilius 411 Roman Classics recommended 447 53 the Poets whose Works have not come down to us 119 Excellencies of the ancient Historians- 448 412 120 54 ...
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... ancient . I am inclined also to think , that in matters of pure reasoning , there is more precision among the moderns , than in some instances there was among the ancients ; owing perhaps to a more extensive lite- rary intercourse ...
... ancient . I am inclined also to think , that in matters of pure reasoning , there is more precision among the moderns , than in some instances there was among the ancients ; owing perhaps to a more extensive lite- rary intercourse ...
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... Ancients , but much more by the Moderns ; and why . But we are now to enquire after`an- other species of Criticism . All ancient books , having been preserved by tran- scription , were liable , through ignorance , negligence , or fraud ...
... Ancients , but much more by the Moderns ; and why . But we are now to enquire after`an- other species of Criticism . All ancient books , having been preserved by tran- scription , were liable , through ignorance , negligence , or fraud ...
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On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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