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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... Earth , and destined for the like pur- poses . For they are solid opaque globes , capable of supporting animals and vege- tables . Some of them are bigger , some less , and some much about the size of our Earth . They all circulate ...
... Earth , and destined for the like pur- poses . For they are solid opaque globes , capable of supporting animals and vege- tables . Some of them are bigger , some less , and some much about the size of our Earth . They all circulate ...
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... earth , is owing to dead vege- tables : Indeed , after the leaves and stems are gone , the roots of plants remain : but those too at last rot and change into mould . And the earth thus prepared , re- stores to plants what it has ...
... earth , is owing to dead vege- tables : Indeed , after the leaves and stems are gone , the roots of plants remain : but those too at last rot and change into mould . And the earth thus prepared , re- stores to plants what it has ...
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... earth is cloath- ed with plants and fruits . Shefits , becaufe the earth being immoveable , retis in the lowest part of the world . She carries a drum , because the earth contains the boif- terous winds in its bofom . Her head is alfo ...
... earth is cloath- ed with plants and fruits . Shefits , becaufe the earth being immoveable , retis in the lowest part of the world . She carries a drum , because the earth contains the boif- terous winds in its bofom . Her head is alfo ...
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