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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... shew respect to his pa- rent , by treating him , at all times , with deference . He will consult his parent's in- clination , and shew a readiness , in a thou- sand nameless trifles , to conform himself to it . He will never peevishly ...
... shew respect to his pa- rent , by treating him , at all times , with deference . He will consult his parent's in- clination , and shew a readiness , in a thou- sand nameless trifles , to conform himself to it . He will never peevishly ...
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... shew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious ma- lignity or superstitious veneration . No question can be more innocently discussed than a dead poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that ...
... shew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious ma- lignity or superstitious veneration . No question can be more innocently discussed than a dead poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that ...
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... shew them in full view by proper combi- nations . In this part of his performances he had none to imitate , but has been him- self imitated by all succeeding writers ; and it may be doubted whether , from all his successors , more ...
... shew them in full view by proper combi- nations . In this part of his performances he had none to imitate , but has been him- self imitated by all succeeding writers ; and it may be doubted whether , from all his successors , more ...
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