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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... death he finished a life of sor- row and affliction . Did we know no more of him than this , upon what ground could .we pretend to hope that he will be able to save us from the power of death ? We might say with the disciples , " We ...
... death he finished a life of sor- row and affliction . Did we know no more of him than this , upon what ground could .we pretend to hope that he will be able to save us from the power of death ? We might say with the disciples , " We ...
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... DEATH . As the production of the metal proveth the work of the alchymist ; so is death the test of our lives , the essay which sheweth the standard of all our actions . Wouldst thou judge of a life , examine the period of it ; the end ...
... DEATH . As the production of the metal proveth the work of the alchymist ; so is death the test of our lives , the essay which sheweth the standard of all our actions . Wouldst thou judge of a life , examine the period of it ; the end ...
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... death ? faid , that he deferved to die . Nor can Ahala Servilius , P. Nafi- ca , L. Opimius , C. Marius , or the fenate itfelf , during my confulate , be acquitted of the moft enormous guilt , if it be a crime to put wicked citizens to ...
... death ? faid , that he deferved to die . Nor can Ahala Servilius , P. Nafi- ca , L. Opimius , C. Marius , or the fenate itfelf , during my confulate , be acquitted of the moft enormous guilt , if it be a crime to put wicked citizens to ...
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