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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... Learned . Learned men have marked out four of these happy ages . The first is the Grecian age , which commenced near the time of the Peloponnesian war , and extended till the time of Alexander the Great ; within which period , we have ...
... Learned . Learned men have marked out four of these happy ages . The first is the Grecian age , which commenced near the time of the Peloponnesian war , and extended till the time of Alexander the Great ; within which period , we have ...
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... learned Greeks , when they quitted the East , led the way , Moschopulus , Chry- soloras , Lascaris , Theodore Gaza ; then in Italy , Laurentius Valla ; in England , Grocin and Linacer ; in Spain , Sanctius ; in the Low Countries ...
... learned Greeks , when they quitted the East , led the way , Moschopulus , Chry- soloras , Lascaris , Theodore Gaza ; then in Italy , Laurentius Valla ; in England , Grocin and Linacer ; in Spain , Sanctius ; in the Low Countries ...
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... learned matters of thofe times , as well in polite learning as the fciences ; and the inftructions he had re- ceived from Polybius , enabled him to fill up the vacant hours he had from public affairs profitably , and to fupport the lei ...
... learned matters of thofe times , as well in polite learning as the fciences ; and the inftructions he had re- ceived from Polybius , enabled him to fill up the vacant hours he had from public affairs profitably , and to fupport the lei ...
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