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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الصفحة 32
... advantage , nor forbear te seize upon it , though by ways never so in- direct ; they cannot see so far as to the re- mote consequences of a steady integrity , and the vast benefit and advantages which it will bring a man at last . Were ...
... advantage , nor forbear te seize upon it , though by ways never so in- direct ; they cannot see so far as to the re- mote consequences of a steady integrity , and the vast benefit and advantages which it will bring a man at last . Were ...
الصفحة 47
... Advantages enjoyed in a Place of Education , One considerable advantage is , that regular method of study , too much neg- lected in other places , which obtains here . Nothing is more common elsewhere , than for persons to plunge , at ...
... Advantages enjoyed in a Place of Education , One considerable advantage is , that regular method of study , too much neg- lected in other places , which obtains here . Nothing is more common elsewhere , than for persons to plunge , at ...
الصفحة 916
... Advantage from their Similarity to those of Nature . If the products of nature rise in value , according as they more or less resemble those of art , we may be sure that artificial works receive a greater advantage from their ...
... Advantage from their Similarity to those of Nature . If the products of nature rise in value , according as they more or less resemble those of art , we may be sure that artificial works receive a greater advantage from their ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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