Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons ; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryJ. Johnson, 1808 - 1120 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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الصفحة iii
... favour in the modest language of merit , which has no occasion to boast , though it never can renounce its unassuming pretensions to just esteem . The most valuable woods , the cedar and the yew , used in the cabinet work of the artisan ...
... favour in the modest language of merit , which has no occasion to boast , though it never can renounce its unassuming pretensions to just esteem . The most valuable woods , the cedar and the yew , used in the cabinet work of the artisan ...
الصفحة xv
... favour of that side which he espou ses . Whereas , if we entertain a suspi- cion of craft and disingenuity , of a cor rupt or a base mind , in the speaker , his eloque.ce loses all its real effect . It may entertain and amuse ; but it ...
... favour of that side which he espou ses . Whereas , if we entertain a suspi- cion of craft and disingenuity , of a cor rupt or a base mind , in the speaker , his eloque.ce loses all its real effect . It may entertain and amuse ; but it ...
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... Favour of Christianity Butler . 248 183 Gospel Information most desirable Sherlock . 249 250 184 Christ and Mahomet compared 185 Madness and Absurdity of Infidelity Bentley . 251 Michaelis . 251 187 Extent , Object , and End of the ...
... Favour of Christianity Butler . 248 183 Gospel Information most desirable Sherlock . 249 250 184 Christ and Mahomet compared 185 Madness and Absurdity of Infidelity Bentley . 251 Michaelis . 251 187 Extent , Object , and End of the ...
الصفحة 37
... favour of God or man , Let thy virtue " be thus diffused ; and if thou believest " with reverence , thou shalt be accepted " above . Farewell . May the smile of " Him who resides in the Heaven of Hea- vens be upon thee ! and against thy ...
... favour of God or man , Let thy virtue " be thus diffused ; and if thou believest " with reverence , thou shalt be accepted " above . Farewell . May the smile of " Him who resides in the Heaven of Hea- vens be upon thee ! and against thy ...
الصفحة 41
... favour , and carry an apology for almost every fail ing . The path of truth is a plain and safe path : that of falsehood is a perplexing maze . After the first departure from sin- cerity , it is not in your power to stop . One artifice ...
... favour , and carry an apology for almost every fail ing . The path of truth is a plain and safe path : that of falsehood is a perplexing maze . After the first departure from sin- cerity , it is not in your power to stop . One artifice ...
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