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 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... able to say nothing , in expla- nation of this phænomenon , we should not have acted a very rational part , in making our ignorance the foundation of our inh- delity , or suffering a minute philosopher to rob us of our religion . ligion ...
... able to say nothing , in expla- nation of this phænomenon , we should not have acted a very rational part , in making our ignorance the foundation of our inh- delity , or suffering a minute philosopher to rob us of our religion . ligion ...
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... able eye and perpetual smiles of the hea- vens , and is every where crowned with pleasure and plenty : but their choice de- scriptions and speeches seem like some pe- culiarly fertile and happy spots of ground in that country , on which ...
... able eye and perpetual smiles of the hea- vens , and is every where crowned with pleasure and plenty : but their choice de- scriptions and speeches seem like some pe- culiarly fertile and happy spots of ground in that country , on which ...
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... able to overcome all prejudices ; and obliging her detractors to abate much of their in- vectives , and her admirers fomewhat their panegyricks , have at last , in fpite of poli- tical factions , and , what is more , of reli- gious ...
... able to overcome all prejudices ; and obliging her detractors to abate much of their in- vectives , and her admirers fomewhat their panegyricks , have at last , in fpite of poli- tical factions , and , what is more , of reli- gious ...
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