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 xii
... nations animate their words in common conversation , with many more motions of the body than others do . The French and the Italians are , in this re- there is no nation , hardly any person spect , much more sprightly than we . But ...
... nations animate their words in common conversation , with many more motions of the body than others do . The French and the Italians are , in this re- there is no nation , hardly any person spect , much more sprightly than we . But ...
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... nation , can extend itself . These are the mansions of good men after death , who , according to the degree and kinds of vir- tue in which they excelled , are distributed among these several islands , which abound with pleasures of ...
... nation , can extend itself . These are the mansions of good men after death , who , according to the degree and kinds of vir- tue in which they excelled , are distributed among these several islands , which abound with pleasures of ...
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... nation : ill supplied with the gifts of for- tune , and led from city to city , and from kingdom to kingdom , by the hopes of pa- trons and preferment , hopes which always flattered and always deceived him ; he yet found means , by ...
... nation : ill supplied with the gifts of for- tune , and led from city to city , and from kingdom to kingdom , by the hopes of pa- trons and preferment , hopes which always flattered and always deceived him ; he yet found means , by ...
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... nation metamorphosed ! Fancy yourself in the middle of the last century . What grave faces do you every where behold ! The most dissolutely inclined suffers not a li- bertine expression to escape him . He who leasts regards the practice ...
... nation metamorphosed ! Fancy yourself in the middle of the last century . What grave faces do you every where behold ! The most dissolutely inclined suffers not a li- bertine expression to escape him . He who leasts regards the practice ...
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... nation to them is strengthened ; till at length we cannot prevail upon ourselves to leave our cup , while we are in a condition to lift it . These are objections , in which all are concerned , whose refreshment , from what they drink ...
... nation to them is strengthened ; till at length we cannot prevail upon ourselves to leave our cup , while we are in a condition to lift it . These are objections , in which all are concerned , whose refreshment , from what they drink ...
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