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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... live in dutiful submission to legal authority . Government and society are united . We cannot have one without the ... lives under , as the best security of his life and property . Gilpin . § 162. Duty to our Teachers and Instruc- tors ...
... live in dutiful submission to legal authority . Government and society are united . We cannot have one without the ... lives under , as the best security of his life and property . Gilpin . § 162. Duty to our Teachers and Instruc- tors ...
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... live : neither would a merciful God have created him : know hence thou shalt live afterward . As the bird is inclosed in the cage before he seeth it , yet teareth not his flesh against its sides ; so neither labour thou vainly to run ...
... live : neither would a merciful God have created him : know hence thou shalt live afterward . As the bird is inclosed in the cage before he seeth it , yet teareth not his flesh against its sides ; so neither labour thou vainly to run ...
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... live quietly in the world , I hear , and see , and say nothing . Meddie not between two brothers . The dead and the al sent have no friends left them . Who is the true gentleman , or nobleman ? He whose actions makes him so . Do well to ...
... live quietly in the world , I hear , and see , and say nothing . Meddie not between two brothers . The dead and the al sent have no friends left them . Who is the true gentleman , or nobleman ? He whose actions makes him so . Do well to ...
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