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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... follow the call of appetite , they have equally a tendency to corrupt the purity of the mind . Besides these three classes , whom we may call bad company , there are others who come under the denomination of ill- chosen company ...
... follow the call of appetite , they have equally a tendency to corrupt the purity of the mind . Besides these three classes , whom we may call bad company , there are others who come under the denomination of ill- chosen company ...
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... follow . The remaining part of the first book , together with the three books following , to verse the 458th of book the fourth , make the middle , which also has its true character , that of succeeding the begin- ning , where we expect ...
... follow . The remaining part of the first book , together with the three books following , to verse the 458th of book the fourth , make the middle , which also has its true character , that of succeeding the begin- ning , where we expect ...
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... follow sentences , and stanzas follow stanzas , with no apparent reason why they should be two rather than twenty , or twenty rather than two . If we want another argument for this minuter Totality , we may refer to nature , which art ...
... follow sentences , and stanzas follow stanzas , with no apparent reason why they should be two rather than twenty , or twenty rather than two . If we want another argument for this minuter Totality , we may refer to nature , which art ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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