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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 86
Página 246
... Light , in whom there is no darkness at all , can we be indebted , that now , persons of the slenderest capacities may view those elevated and beneficial truths in the strongest point of light , which the finest spirits of the Gentile ...
... Light , in whom there is no darkness at all , can we be indebted , that now , persons of the slenderest capacities may view those elevated and beneficial truths in the strongest point of light , which the finest spirits of the Gentile ...
Página 314
... light very copiously on that planet : so that if the remoter planets have the Sun's light faint er by day than we , they have an addition made to it morning and evening by one or more of their moons , and a greater quan- tity of light ...
... light very copiously on that planet : so that if the remoter planets have the Sun's light faint er by day than we , they have an addition made to it morning and evening by one or more of their moons , and a greater quan- tity of light ...
Página 797
... light could be feen in the whole fituation . It was one of thofe nights when front - It again appeared in the fameplace , the moon gives a faint glimmering of light and quickly glided away as before - at the through the thick black ...
... light could be feen in the whole fituation . It was one of thofe nights when front - It again appeared in the fameplace , the moon gives a faint glimmering of light and quickly glided away as before - at the through the thick black ...
Contenido
Sect | 1 |
Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
Otras 80 secciones no mostradas
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
admire Æneid affections agreeable ancient appear Aristotle attention bad company beauty body cerning character Christ Christian Cicero consider dæmons death Demosthenes divine duty earth elegance endeavour evil excellent expression father favour genius give grace greatest Greece Greek happiness hath heart heaven Herodotus holy Homer honour human Ibid idolatry Iliad imagination Jews kind knowledge labour language learned ligion live Livy Lord mankind manner matter means ment mind moral nation nature neral ness never object observe ourselves Pacuvius passions perfect persons Pindar Plato pleasure poetry poets praise proper racter reason religion render Roman Sallust Scripture sense sentiments shew sion Socrates soul speak spirit style sublime Tacitus taste temper thee Theocritus thine things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth ture unto vice Virgil virtue whole wisdom wise words writing youth