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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... mankind will always furnish out a sufficient fund for ri- dicule ; and when we consider how vast and spacious a field the little scene of hu- man life affords for malice and ill - nature , we shall not so much wonder to see the lover of ...
... mankind will always furnish out a sufficient fund for ri- dicule ; and when we consider how vast and spacious a field the little scene of hu- man life affords for malice and ill - nature , we shall not so much wonder to see the lover of ...
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... mankind , had much obscured . This important revelation was made to them in the Wilderness of Sinah ; there , assembled before the burning moun- tain , surrounded with blackness , and darkness , and tempest , " they heard the aw- ful ...
... mankind , had much obscured . This important revelation was made to them in the Wilderness of Sinah ; there , assembled before the burning moun- tain , surrounded with blackness , and darkness , and tempest , " they heard the aw- ful ...
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... mankind under divine condemnation , and from which we have been redeemed at so dear a rate . Re- member that the title of Christian , or follower of Christ , implies a more than or- dinary degree of holiness and goodness . As our ...
... mankind under divine condemnation , and from which we have been redeemed at so dear a rate . Re- member that the title of Christian , or follower of Christ , implies a more than or- dinary degree of holiness and goodness . As our ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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