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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... necessary both in a civil , and in a moral light . In a civil light , it is the necessary ac- companiment of various employments ; on which depend all the advantages of soci- ety . Like the stones of a regular building , some must range ...
... necessary both in a civil , and in a moral light . In a civil light , it is the necessary ac- companiment of various employments ; on which depend all the advantages of soci- ety . Like the stones of a regular building , some must range ...
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... necessary to lay the method we use before the reader , only to write and then he will read , in order . But it requires a full command of the subject , a distinct view , to keep it always in sight , or else , without some method first ...
... necessary to lay the method we use before the reader , only to write and then he will read , in order . But it requires a full command of the subject , a distinct view , to keep it always in sight , or else , without some method first ...
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... necessary limits prescribed to this book . $ 141 . On the ancient Writers ; and on the Labour with which the Ancients composed . The Ancients ( of whom we speak ) had good natural parts , and applied them right ; they understood their ...
... necessary limits prescribed to this book . $ 141 . On the ancient Writers ; and on the Labour with which the Ancients composed . The Ancients ( of whom we speak ) had good natural parts , and applied them right ; they understood their ...
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