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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... thou oughtest to contemn it . Love it not for itself , but for the good it may be of to others . Gold cannot buy it for thee , neither can mines of diamonds purchase back the mo- ment thou hast now lost of it . Employ the succeeding ...
... thou oughtest to contemn it . Love it not for itself , but for the good it may be of to others . Gold cannot buy it for thee , neither can mines of diamonds purchase back the mo- ment thou hast now lost of it . Employ the succeeding ...
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... thou not , I will have it ? Surely thou forgettest that he who created thee , created also these ; and that their blood is as rich as thine . Sayest thou , that justice cannot be exe- cuted without wrong ! surely thine own words condemn ...
... thou not , I will have it ? Surely thou forgettest that he who created thee , created also these ; and that their blood is as rich as thine . Sayest thou , that justice cannot be exe- cuted without wrong ! surely thine own words condemn ...
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... thou esteemest a man for his titles , and contenneth the stranger be- cause he wanteth them , judgest thou not of the camel by its bridle ? Think not thou art revenged of thine enemy when thou slayest him : thou put test him beyond thy ...
... thou esteemest a man for his titles , and contenneth the stranger be- cause he wanteth them , judgest thou not of the camel by its bridle ? Think not thou art revenged of thine enemy when thou slayest him : thou put test him beyond thy ...
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